"Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation.……" — H. L. Mencken

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• We must be authors of the history of our age. — Madeleine Albright
• among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the… — Thomas Jefferson
• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading… — Joseph Addison
• Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends… — Richard Bach
• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom… — Albert Camus
• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author… — Stephen Vizinczey

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