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Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign…
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us…
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of…
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,…
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their…
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and…
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and…
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or…
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for…
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out…

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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from… — Unknown Author
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and… — Unknown Author
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has… — Pope Francis
Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we… — Rick Riordan
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for… — Maureen Corrigan
The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. — David Novak
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in… — Pope Benedict XVI
His hand will be against every man, and every mans hand against him. -Genesis xvi. 12 — Bible
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. -Job vii. 10; cf. xvi. 22 — Bible
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. -Job xvi. 1 — Bible

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