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"I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt. …"

"In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save li…"

"For this reason, all the experiments in this book should be supplemented with a healthy outgoing attitude toward other people and relationships. If you are already a withdrawn, introspective person, y…"

"Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders."

"The website of the Robert Musil Literature Museum"

"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."

"Henry Miller Memorial Library"

"If your ministry has become focused on the already-convinced, I'll bet that your ministry doesn't have it."

"My definition of a great story has nothing to do with "a varied and interesting background." It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with increasing pleasure. The b…"

"Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks."

"a written note of Nolde, 1903, on the island of Alsen; as quoted by, in Expressionism; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 77"

"Bear, Jr., James A., ed. Jefferson's Memorandum Books, 2 vols. . Jefferson's account books with records of daily expenses."

"Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a …"

"The Theodore Sturgeon Page"

"It is like reading of a land periodically devastated by hordes of lemmings or locusts; it is like turning from the history of a coral reef, in which every act and every death is a foundation, to the d…"

"Naples is so strong, so vital. It’s about music and dance. Books and books of history. Read all the books first and then we can talk."

"Alan Lightman speaks with Jenny Attiyeh on Thoughtcast about his new book, Ghost"

"Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholar…"

"Before 1997, some people were publicly claiming that they would be put behind bars , or not be allowed to return if they left. Some people even feared that certain books or magazines would not be read…"

"I am charmed with your book — enchanted. You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world — you and your other half together — Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a…"