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- Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...…
- Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to…
- In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach