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"There’s a rule I used to call The Niven Rule but which I just now have decided to call the Rusting Bridges rule. It came to me after reading Niven’s “All The Bridges Rusting.” In this story, humans ha…"

"On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns."

"snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi"

"It is very difficult to edit something that I direct. It’s having to remake decisions that I’ve already made on set and now have to undo or reimagine. I always warn Directors sitting down with me to e…"

"I think that unless a reviewer gets their facts completely wrong, the author should shut up (and even then, the author should probably let it go — although I'm a big fan of a letter that James Branch …"

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere... God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

"The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And t…"

"Margaret Chase Smith Library"

"I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which…"

"it is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing."

"Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny, but there is surely a case for saying that the story of Captain Ahab's contest with the great white whale is one o…"

"There was an Indian edition of most of my books, but it didn't make much of a splash."

"'Renoir in Guernsey' , text by John House, 19 pages"

"Much has been written about fashion, in all its aspects, but i do not think any couturier has ever before attempted to compile a dictionary on the subject."

"French Wikisource texts for Charles Baudelaire"

"Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abruptly."

"Curiosities of Literature"

"The Comte de St.-Germain...His linguistic proficiency verged on the supernatural. He spoke German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French with a Piedmontese accent, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arab…"

"I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read."

"We came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing a Hebrew, that is a Jewish state here. In considerable areas of the country we bought lands from the Arabs. Jewish…"