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"Keira Knightley fanpage"

"The Bible is, for better or worse, the foundational document of Western civilization . It's the product of processes that remain fundamentally beyond our comprehension. The Bible is a library composed…"

"The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance f…"

"The website for Jensen's latest book Endgame, which includes numerous online excerpts"

"Reader, I married him."

"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre."

"Yes, secularism does propose a physical and purposeless universe, and many of us accept the notion that our sense of self is a neuronal illusion. But although the universe is purposeless, our lives ar…"

"It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us."

"Notes on Susan" by Eliot Weinberger in The New York Review of Books"

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"I inclose the catalogue of your friend Jackson the quakeers library. Perhaps you have already heard that the owner cut his throat in the wine-cellar, where he was accustomed to retire after the family…"

"SORGLL: Terence, Eunuch 232-264, read by Matthew Dillon"

"It was Trout’s fantasy that somebody would be outraged by the footprints. This would give him the opportunity to reply grandly, "What is it that offends you so? I am simply using man’s first printing …"

"There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book — any sort of book — is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring t…"

"Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology."

"I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned…"

"There are already people who are world class in India, for example C.N.R. Rao . He is an example of how you can do first rate international work within India. So I would say to Indians — you have it w…"

"Experts in Germanic literature... solemnly assent: emigration from Scandinavia is an authentic "tribal memory"..."

"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed."

"A guide to finding sources and literature about Roald Dahl, by Kelly Harkrader"