books

"This next piece is called "Sonnet 155", or "If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn", and it goes like this:"

"I wrote the books I should have liked to read. That's always been my reason for writing. People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."

"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four."

"Inevitably in this century we will have open borders. We are seeing it in Europe already. The movement of peoples across the globe will mean that borders are almost going to become irrelevant by the e…"

"Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable."

"The practice of reading aloud did do something towards attuning my ear .The subtle cadences of Elizabethan blank verse taught me more than the substantial study of English prosody could do at that tim…"

"The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right."

"I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice:"

"I see that the Rev. Dr. Eddy advises ministers not to answer the arguments of infidels in the pulpit, and gives this wonderful reason: That the hearers will get more doubts from the answer than from r…"

"Mosques provided the only possible meeting places in which the coalition of resistance forces could meet, and they provided a ready platform for the communication of Islamic ideology. With civic space…"

"Books remained as in the eighteenth century, the source of life, and as they came out — Thackeray, Dickens, Bulwer, Tennyson, Macaulay, Carlyle, and the rest — they were devoured; but as far as happin…"

"The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril."

"To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose o…"

"Blind eyes cannot read."

"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? W…"

"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."

"Marek Żukow-Karczewski in the National Library of Poland"

"Watching and wondering: Why does think aren't good enough to host a show on his network? MSNBC has done such a wonderful job spreading intersectionality to the rest of the world! Why no transgenders o…"

"A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books."

"If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!"