books

"Public Library of India : Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi"

"Dillon, Matthew . Aristophanes. Frogs. Translated for the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Online at Perseus/Tufts"

"Texture and pattern should function as a surprise."

"Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We …"

"There's nothing I enjoy more than sitting down with a big piece of marmite on toast and reading through the archives of a good webcomic. The only problem is that the good webcomics are all hidden behi…"

"Yet it must be remembered that the essential theoretical core of the book - the relationship between oversaving, foreign investment and imperialism - appeared in an article written in 1898, before his…"

"One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film."

"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing."

"Reading with Kundera" by Russell Banks in The New York Times"

"2004 reading and audio interview at the Lannan Foundation Audio Archive"

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran … in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean."

"Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures."

"There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate."

"In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade."

"Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good."

"The seed comes when the field is ready, greatness comes when the mind is ready."

"3) If George is not ready to send the twins, then he should bring our troops home immediately. We will demand a speedy withdrawal."

"... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can rem…"

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."

"Tennessee Williams Papers at Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library"