books

"My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it: if you not only do it yourself, if you also influence others to do it, allow me to thank each one of them, and you …"

"The book is a commercial hit in French bookstores, proving that, contrary to what some believe, the public not only wants to read what we have to say, but they share our values of inclusion and divers…"

"Les sots font le texte, et les hommes d'esprit les commentaires."

"The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading…"

"If Man A asks Man B for directions, Man B, realizing that Man A is a weak, direction-asking type of male who probably also reads owner's manuals, could decide to attack Man A's village and plunder his…"

"When wrath runs rampage"

"Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing"

"It is true that the early Nehruvian textbooks were written by Romila Thapar and so on, many of whom were Marxists and it is true that those textbooks did sort of emphasize a slightly rose-tinted visio…"

"Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747."

"echo $package has manual pages available in source form.echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."

"The subject matter of today's youth novels has no boundaries. The only taboo seems to be sex discrimination... I can only guess about where we're going, but I think we have come about as far as we can…"

"Well, I think it is accidental. It’s just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I think that Dylan Thomas, his prose and poetry, was a big influence on me. Just his …"

"Kean is original; but he copies from himself. His rapid descents from the hyper-tragic to the infra-colloquial, though sometimes productive of great effect, are often unreasonable. To see him act, is …"

"When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "grea…"

"The Erasmus Text Project"

"James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land."

"I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety."

"I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated."

"The more rigorously criticism historicizes a work of art, in the sense of lodging it in the context of the moment of its production, the less likely it becomes for criticism to be able to explain eith…"

"Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity."