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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents…
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Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far…
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter
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Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.
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The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only…
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The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
— A. Edward Newton
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One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the…
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There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.
— Julien Torma
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