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"We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily…"

"When Henry Mulcahy, a middle-aged instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, Jocelyn, Pennsylvania, unfolded the President's letter and became aware of its contents, he gave a sudden sharp cry of im…"

"I recently published a book about movies I hated, and people have been asking me which reviews are harder to write — those about great movies, or those about terrible ones. The answer is neither. The …"

"I have the same idea with all my books: an attempt to come close to the core of reality, the structure of reality, as opposed to the merely superficial. The realistic novel is remote from art. A novel…"

"Kieślowski's "Three Colours" Trilogy at the Galilean Library"

"The term "women and minorities," united against the White male is a clever and deadly efficient strategy, although minorities should read "Vast Majorities."

"It is not so bad that my paintings have been placed in the so-called reading room . But it will be just as you write, they will definitely have to serve for FW Jansen and others. They certainly must g…"

"The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to. It doesn’t want…"

"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that ex…"

"As a matter of fact, however, no church rises with everything against it. Something is favorable to it, or it could not exist. If it succeeds and grows, it is absolutely certain that the conditions ar…"

"Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility."

"Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read an…"

"The Female Speaker at google books"

"The work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbl…"

"Recording of an 1889 Harrison speech at Vincent Voice LIbrary,Michigan State University"

"An Interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan by Geoffrey H. Goodwin at Bookslut"

"I was called a fool when I was chair of fashion at Parsons and I invited PETA to speak to students. The industry went crazy. I said: "Wait a minute. The International Fur Trade Commission is coming he…"

"What I have written will bring no change to our textbooks or to the education system which produces them. Few will read this book. Fewer will remember it after reading it. Our own little stubborn worl…"

"It seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter."

"A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."