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"Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book."

"By Sanskrit is meant the learned language of India - the language of its cultured inhabitants, the language of its religion, its literature and science - not by any means a dead language, but one stil…"

"I have found out that the real essentials of greatness in men are not written in books, nor can they be found in the schools, They are written into the inner consciousness of everyone who intensely se…"

"This suiting my humor so well; I did thenceforth prosecute it, not as a formal Study, but as a pleasing Diversion, at spare hours; as books of Arithmetick or others Mathematical fel occasionally in my…"

"…I would have been a much better-adjusted adult earlier on if I’d read a single book about real queer people when I was growing up."

"The Bible was very definitely written by men, and not superior men either; far from it! This is why so much of it can be shown to be historically and scientifically dead wrong about damned-near everyt…"

"A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments."

"We read of the gales that bear from the shores of Ceylon the breathings of the cinnamon groves."

"Yet with every allowance, one feels it difficult to see how any mortal ever could consider this Koran as a Book written in Heaven, too good for the Earth; as a well-written book, or indeed as a book a…"

"“I regard the Ramayana of Tulsi Das,” says Gandhi, “as the greatest book in all devotional literature."

"Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism."

"I read all the movie reviews, especially those of Ebert, a graceful and witty prose stylist with profound erudition, whose reviews are worth reading just for themselves, whether or not I have any inte…"

"The other economic camp made for quite a different story. James Tobin had already won the Nobel Prize when I spoke with him. A true gentleman, he spoke softly about his life and his Keynesian approach…"

"Stephen R. L. Clark's webpage"

"Modern ideas have had a home in Afghanistan since the 19th century. Several Islamist reformist movements started in Afghanistan before spreading to Central Asia and beyond. Afghanistan’s social- democ…"

"I'm really serious about this writing thing. What time I haven't been writing, I've been reading: Thomas Wolfe, if you know who he is. His writing is mostly built about the central character of a writ…"

"It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for p…"

"I receive letters from people who’ve been cured with the ‘urine-therapy’…. Several years ago, a man called Lawrence Armstrong was suffering from TB. One day, he was reading the psalms from the Bible, …"

"Transcript of interview with, Edinburgh International Book Festival broadcast on ,"

"Far away and long ago, I read Emma Goldman's story of her life, her first book in which she told the grim, deeply touching narrative of her young life during which she worked in a scrubby sweatshop ma…"