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• Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
• I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
• Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
• When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
• It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
• Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
• Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
• A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
• English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
• I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

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