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"Anthology of English Literature"

"A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well."

"Absolutely has the particularity of African-American experience. But I feel strongly that this kind of experience is not so different from other people’s experiences. This is about a particular time a…"

"It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men…"

"Too many little numbers on one page!"

"You're the nimble tread/Of the feet of Fred Astaire"

"A thoroughly readable and rich introduction to...the process of recovery from alcoholism."

"From these two incontrovertible premises he deduced that the Library is total and that its shelves register all the possible combinations of the twenty-odd orthographical symbols . Everything: the min…"

"They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece o…"

"Online catalog of F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal library, online at LibraryThing"

"That frivolous young widow ought to have paid for the solace she declared so often she found in books. "I must read to forget." All very well, but she should not forget to pay for the means of forgetf…"

"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. Compassion is all to the good, but vindictiveness is the verity Faulkner forgot: the organic …"

"Books don’t have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we don’t just read "good" books because they’re good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside our…"

"Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace."

"So it's tempting to incorporate a smaller resolver library into qmail. I'd no longer be able to blame the BIND authors and vendors for the fact that attackers can easily use DNS to steal mail."

"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful."

"I was surprised, while preparing this lecture, to notice how, among my friends who had read the book, a division into two groups appeared. Both groups are equally discerning and educated, and as far a…"

"When British and then American troops moved into southern Italy, they simply reinstated the fascist order—the industrialists. But the big problem came when the troops got to the north, which the Itali…"

"The immaterial pictorial sensitivity zones of Yves KLEIN, the Monochrome, are relinquished against a certain weight of fine gold. Seven series of these pictural immaterial zones all numbered exist alr…"

"Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, becaus…"