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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core…

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

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