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"Fantasy and science fiction novels are metaphors for our world. If a speculative book looks at our world through the eyes of a marginalized person, white readers might not connect with that character,…"

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly."

"If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them."

"This book and I have become indivisible. I have placed my feet on this book's last pages, confident of standing so much higher in the world than I ever stood before."

"Helen Waddell's complete English translation of "His Confession" at TheHyperTexts."

"In another novel titled Suhag ka Shav quoted in page =93"

"“Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum."

"Interview, Mark Thwaite, 12th August 2005, 'Ready Steady Books for literature'"

"Goebbels...now made an applauded entrance. He was no man to improvise a word or two of greeting; he had typewritten sheets.... He spoke of the cinema as the popular voice of the state...those products…"

"I wrote the Light of What We Know here .., over several long stays. I'm not sure where I would have written it otherwise. I've been homeless since 2007, all my few possessions put into storage before …"

"The cinema may have a specific beauty of its own, but it does not permit that constant re-reading, that meditative brooding, those turning-back to passages heavily charged with meaning, which form the…"

"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

"I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimida…"

"The tension between making it better and getting it done appears wherever people have work to finish or a product to get out: a computer, a dinner, a term paper, an automobile, a book. We want to get …"

"Online texts by Thomas Ken"

"Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers."

"“Eve,” I said, “please stop for a minute. I think I finally get it. As you read to me aloud, the words become alive for me, and I can see pictures in my head. But when I try to read, all those little …"

"I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before."

"Full text of Damon and Pythias."

"Web page tribute to Mishima"