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Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
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The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
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Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
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The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we…
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The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…
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Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
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Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely…
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was…
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Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried…
— Lewis Buzbee
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For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but…
— Ben Ehrenreich
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;…
— Ramona Koval
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…
— Lynne Truss
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The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers,…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come…
— Alberto Manguel
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I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
— Noah Baumbach
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