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- I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then…
- From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from…
- A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.
- So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.…
- Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three…
- I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
- That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash