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“It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.”

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What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

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Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will…

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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want…

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Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

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A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always,…

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“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it…

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

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Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

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True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned…

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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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