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"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."

"I am SO tired of this trope. It may indeed be the case that we can’t justify a priori via philosophical lucubrations that we arrive at the truth about nature only by using the methods of science. My a…"

"I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the…"

"A dreadful rumor reached us from the West. We heard that Rome was besieged, that the citizens were buying their safety with gold, and that when they had been thus despoiled they were again beleaguered…"

"Our own tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges."

"Proffil o Guardian Books"

"Website of Osho International Foundation, includes fully searchable library of Osho's books"

"An outstanding effort filled with important information for those who treat alcoholics, live with alcoholics, or who are alcoholics.... A significant contribution to the field, and all who deal with a…"

"Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl."

"The Comte de St.-Germain...His linguistic proficiency verged on the supernatural. He spoke German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French with a Piedmontese accent, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arab…"

"I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts... I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the worl…"

"Eric Trist Biographical page."

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works."

"I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. Ch. 2, "The Late Mr. Wells"

"The Butcher Block: A podcast about Jim and his books."

"The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplifi…"

"Josh : Y'all ready to see Foo Fighters?"

"Novelty is a new kind of loneliness."

"“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces."

"I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive."