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"Two Silesius' texts in English translation"

"Some people like to read their bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit"

"Poets like Jayasi, Rahim, and Raskhan are rare phenomena. So are saints like Kabir, Nanak and Gharib Das. They attempted a synthesis of the two cultural streams in the field of literature in their own…"

"Al-Qaeda is a virus and it is spreading. If we fail to stop it, we will pay a very heavy price."

"Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume by Cargill Gilston Knott"

"I started out with $600, a second hand Volkswagen, and a wife. One was an asset and one was a liability. I will let you figure out which was which. I liquidated both, and still had the $600. I worked …"

"Eleanor and her daughter Mary and her granddaughter Blanche knew as well as Saint Bernard did, or Saint Francis, what a brute the emancipated man could be; and as though they foresaw the society of th…"

"Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature."

"I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia."

"Remarks are not literature."

"The Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper"

"The arrangement I worked out with Fordham was that I would do my alternate service there as a conscientious objector, working with McLuhan directly during the 1967–1968 academic year and then experime…"

"There was a sale here of drawings by Millet, I don't know whether I've already written to you about it. When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where they were exhibited, I felt something akin to: 'Pu…"

"This book offers an analytic description of the complicated processes by which seasons of business prosperity, crisis, depression, and revival come about in the modern world. The materials used consis…"

"My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man wh…"

"Perspectives in American Literature"

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"The Eunuch at The Perseus Digital Library"

"Bachmann's page on Minnesota Senate site"

"I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general calls up Churchill and says, 'It's over,' and Churchill says, 'How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe…"