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"The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end."

"But I felt it was important to put those kinds of decisions in the book. And I've got to tell you I really - I mean, I don't want to be cavalier about it but I've done what I've done and I, frankly, i…"

"When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go."

"For that is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. Till ye finally meet with the acquaintance of Mister Typus, Mistress Tope and all the little typtopies. Filstup. So yo…"

"Use your radio, but know how to distrust it—and do not let a day go by without reading and meditation if you want to save your soul, that soul which is yours and yours alone."

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"Today the world is playing with fire. We have to be ready to face fire, water and great storms and not be shaken. We have to go beyond the hope of life and the fear of death. Whatever happens we must …"

"Logical analysis applied to mental phenomenon shows that there is but one law of mind, namely that ideas tend to spread continuously and to affect certain others which stand to them in a peculiar rela…"

"Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader."

"The Treatise is also one of the most important books of Western thought ever written. Spinoza was the first to argue that the Bible is not literally the word of God but rather a work of human literatu…"

"My familiar spirit is like an old wild turkey that forsakes a feeding ground as soon as it sees tracks of people-especially if the people are readers, book-buyers. It's a crafty bird and it wants to g…"

"Men think it right to eat animals, because they are led to believe that God sanctions it. This is untrue. No matter in what books it may be written that it is not sinful to slay animals and to eat the…"

"Anna Quindlen talks about her novel Rise and Shine. video"

"The books and films they see survey from the young boy's point of view his first touch of a girl's thighs, his first glimpse of her breasts. The girls sit listening, absorbing, their familiar breasts …"

"Sheen reading "My Country Awake" by Rabindranath Tagore"

"Gunter Grass discusses The Tin Drum on the BBC World Service programme World Book Club"

"Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future."

"Isabella Fyvie Mayo, "Edward Garrett" at the On-line Books site"

"'An exile is a refugee with a library!'"

"One is that I’m the first reader, and so I’m always writing these poems to myself, and my self — my self as a reader — is someone who wants to be transformed in the process of reading poems. I don’t w…"