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"The modern reading of ancient literature involves a mode of reception that is not merely scholarly or antiquarian. Instead, aesthetic experience allows for a direct relationship between reader and wor…"

"I've always been kind of obsessed with Frida Kahlo, so I was really into the idea of getting something that belonged to her. And then from Frida Kahlo I found out about Tina Modotti and then I started…"

"The stock of the greatest company in the world is crap if every investor already thinks it is the greatest company in the world."

"I think of Neuromancer as being, in a good sense, an adolescent book. It's a young man's book. It was written very young-man's-book. It was written by a man who was not very young, when he wrote it, b…"

"Look at you; you're on The New Democracy, considered the most brilliant weekly in the country, read by the men who do things and all that. What's your business? Why, to be as clever, as interesting, a…"

"Book review: Aphorisms by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg"

"Non-governmental Islamist forces are also becoming more circumspect. In Great Britain, after thousands of Muslims openly shouted "We will kill Satan Rushdie," the next death edict, against Pakistani-b…"

"I've got five big years ahead of me now, and I guess I'll have five more after that. What's the use of going further along than that? I haven't even thought of quitting the game. I feel like I was jus…"

"No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the m…"

"Acacia John Bunyan Online Library"

"By the time I get to coloring it’s usually the last step and I’m a little creatively tapped out. So I don’t spend a ton of time building a concept for the coloring, but I do love seeing things take fi…"

"Karl's Diary - Read about a pub which is gettin' some stick 'cause its stopped a horse goin' in. Its been the horse' regular for ages, but some new owners have taken over the pub and they said they're…"

"It is my intention to represent the world of Shakespeare as far as possible as it really is and not merely to tell the story. It is my effort to retain the names used by him, the atmosphere he created…"

"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II by Isaac Disraeli"

"Text, Audio, and Video of Robert Kennedy's Address at Ball State University"

"FM 3-24 New Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Manual, , Forward written by LTG David Petraeus"

"Hegel by HyperText, reference archive at Marxists.org."

"This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion."

"I have been reading recently about synesthesia, in this case, the association of music and other sensory information with colors and I realized that I probably have a little or a lot of that current. …"

"The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business."