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"My plan: we’re gonna crush the virus very quickly. It’s happening already. It’s happening."

"And now … Page Three"

"Goebbels was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me."

"The – now shop-worn – label of ‘magical realism’ is customarily applied to Márquez’s novels. It has never fitted Vargas Llosa, who disavows the adjective."

"The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning."

"I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear."

"I always wish, in reading my favourite poets, to know what first suggested my favourite poems. Few things would be more interesting than to know under what circumstances they were composed, — how much…"

"I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I …"

"Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll!"

"One opinion that is trotted out for propaganda, for the propaganda parade, is my dissent in Hudson vs. McMillian. The conclusion reached by the long arms of the critics is that I supported the beating…"

"Cassiodorus at The Latin Library"

"Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of t…"

"My mother was the source of Tolstoi's greatest happiness, and the real author of his greatness. If there is sometimes ground for thinking, while reading the works of Tolstoi, "Do what I do, and not wh…"

"In the Diary which begins 1845 there is a much larger infusion of secular matter. I find myself deep in the literary history of the eighteenth century, reading Gray's Correspondence, Prior's Life of G…"

"Finding the Phenomenal Oppen" by Forrest Gander, from his A Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence"

"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every…"

"I'm reading George Borrow's Lavengro...and , of course, it fits perfectly into the pattern of my current reading! - Fallada and Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives Tale, i.e. my constant musings on the nin…"

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."

"If you are looking at fine buildings or the literature of the period, you have to be aware that you are only dealing with the mindset of the elite."

"Harriet Taylor Mill,biographical profile, including quotes and further resources in Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook"