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"I knew more things in the first ten years of my life than I believe I have known at any time since. I knew everything there was to know about our house for a start. I knew what was written on the unde…"

"My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library."

"Sermons by John Logan at Google Books."

"One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the pr…"

"Somewhat to my surprise, I was accepted for membership in the society . I was looking forward to giving my inaugural paper, "The Navel of Neurosis: Trauma, Memory and Denial," the one I had written wi…"

"Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia webpage"

"The John James Audubon Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University"

"Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us."

"I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast."

"I have not written this book as something that is over. When you have lived like that, it will be present always, like the gun I shot and the dogs and those grouse living in the subcellars of my brain…"

"How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire."

"Audio files of 2 poems read by Stevens"

"It’s difficult to identify where he can still improve. He has already proven to have everything."

"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."

"My family was always interested in nature, and that made me curious about it too – we liked to learn about birds and plants and rocks together. It was really fun! In every bird, plant, or rock, there’…"

"As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter. ...They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but …"

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."

"However could he organize his novel? What form to give it? It is so complex. Too loose, thinks Sam, too scattered."

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

"Malcolm Bradbury, The Modern British Novel, 1993"