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"At that moment a G. A. R. veteran was dying. He had come from the Civil War straight to a farm which, though it was officially within the city-limits of Zenith, was primitive as the backwoods. He had …"

"Texts from Harry Haywood at marxists.org"

"I already said that fucking thing, you missed it. Where were you on that one, O'Keefe? Eyes on the prize. Focus!"

"The sort of ill-informed armchair moralizing that pours from the permanently outraged, Daily Mail-reading mentality is one of the more revolting and frightening aspects of our society."

"Writings of Calvin at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library"

"The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wond…"

"Contributor page at Claremont Review of Books website"

"Things are not going well for me. My chef at the Charité strongly disapproves of women students and took this means of showing it. About a hundred men went round the wards today, and when we were all …"

"Paul ... calls the process of shifting away from material matters and toward spiritual matters a “turning to the Lord” and “taking away of a veil.” In all the different tropes and terms for the theori…"

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"SpiritSight.com - Excerpts from selected Thich Nhat Hanh books"

"What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begi…"

"I can also tell you on the Internet in China, you can have access to a lot of postings that are quite critical about the government. It is exactly through reading these critical opinions on the Intern…"

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

"free-to-read english text: 'Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist', by Dieter W. Posselt, 2010 - GoogleBooks"

"Here's a tip I've never used: I understand you can learn a great deal of girldom by reading Pride and Prejudice, and I own a copy, but I have never read it. I tried. It was given to me by a girl with …"

"Over and over again, medical writers liken withdrawal , at worst, to a dose of flu. … Let me ask the reader this: if you were given a choice between suffering a bout of flu in the above sense, or avoi…"

"Interview for Land of the Dead at Dread Central"

"Readers of this book, however intelligent and knowing, could scarcely expect to do a better job of portfolio selection than the top analysts of the country. But if it is true that a fairly large segme…"

"Lisey's Story. That one felt like an important book to me because it was about marriage, and I'd never written about that. I wanted to talk about two things: One is the secret world that people build …"