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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

"I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemi…"

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."

"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature di…"

"Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like “Women in Chess” would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess…"

"Project Gutenberg e-Text of Leaves of Grass"

"Cuomo Opponent Unbowed by Underdog Status " , 25 August 2014, on page A15."

"This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind."

"The Letters to J. D. Salinger book"

"Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?"

"A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader."

"The age of the book is almost gone."

"Another ship ready to dock... the rigging comes loose... like Jennifer's Veil."

"Charles de Lint Reading List from SF Site"

"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."

"Why do people sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the stadium when they're already there?"

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or w…"

"The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro – available at Google Books"

"Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel."