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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques."

"How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!"

"None of us would have written as we do without surrealism and dadaism. By liberating the language, those movements paved the way for us."

"I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can …"

"Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save t…"

"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."

"Headlines are icons, not literature."

"I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song."

"I always say—a prejudice on my part, I'm sure—you can tell a lot about a person's character from his choice of sofa. Sofas constitute a realm inviolate unto themselves. This, however, is something tha…"

"Rotation through a fourth dimension can’t affect a three-dimensional figure any more than you can shake letters off a printed page."

"I am a sensitive artist. Nobody understands me because I am so deep. In my work, I make allusions to books that nobody else has read, music that nobody else has heard, and art that nobody else has see…"

"Full Text Bradford's book: "Of Plymouth Plantation"

"It would finally be much easier for me to say what I do not believe than what I do believe. This initial statement might be attributed to a negativism with which I am wrongly charged because I have re…"

"It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself."

"Vice Presidential Debate : Transcript text, Audio and Video"

"Well I certainly second that, I think in addition, well I mean other things I've written suggest reading a lot of history, and uh, clearly one of the things you want people to understand is the uncert…"

"Thus signifieth He where He saith: I am Ground of thy beseeching. And thus in this blessed word, with the Shewing, I saw a full overcoming against all our weakness and all our doubtful dreads."

"The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that the…"

"It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation."

"A lot of my measures were embraced in other bills. I don't want to be Kennedy, Rostenkowski … put bad legislation on the books."