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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer…

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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a…
But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books…
It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.…
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast…
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to…
We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by…
Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?
People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the…
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched,…
I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that…

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[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — George Bernard Shaw
We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of… — Oswald Chambers
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the… — John McCain
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,… — Rudolf Rocker
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison
It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium. — Tim Daly
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will… — Oswald Chambers
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea,… — Jon Krakauer
(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein

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