books

"Annotated bibliography for Vyacheslav Molotov from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

"An important aspect of Nonconformity was its cult of the Bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the Bible takes much of its colour from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost e…"

"The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No mo…"

"Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time."

"What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?"

"IF YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED to reading works of speculative fiction and enjoy puzzling things out on your own, skip this Note. Otherwise, know that the scene in which this book is set is not Earth, but a pl…"

"When I first discovered for myself how near was the King in His beauty I thought I would be the singer of the happiest songs. Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to …"

"An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated."

"People read me but they don't subscribe."

"Introduction" to The Ernest Becker Reader by Daniel Liechty"

"I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure."

"And then I began to feel it, the whole enormous scope of it, in what had begun in some dark antiquity of trees and caves and the plains of Africa; of human life, erect and ape-like, spreading itself e…"

"Although the medium is the message, the controls go beyond programming. The restraints are always directed to the “content,” which is always another medium. The content of the press is literary statem…"

"I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them."

"What My Last Man Did book publication notification from the non-profit literary magazine, Indiana Review."

"Hey, mister professional game critic, have you ever heard of this obscure game called 'Deus Ex'?" This is why I hate reading my email."

"And you remember, Rabbi Wise has declared, in a heated moment, that our plays seem to be written for the hosiery buyers. If Dr. Wise had only witnessed our new summer reviews, he doubtless would have …"

"We do not talk. We bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests. ~ "The Shadows," The Air-Conditioned Nightmare ."

"It may be urged that, with the extensive sea−coast of the United States, a blockade of the whole line cannot be effectively kept up. No one will more readily concede this than officers who remember ho…"

"Reading should be encouraged at all times, with an effort to promote books that are worthwhile and that enlarge the recruit's facility to encounter the world of letters and great national problems"