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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”

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“Winter is icumen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slop,And how the wind doth ramm!   Sing: Goddamm.”

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