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"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things."

"Books which are no books."

"Almost all Muslims, including the most enlightened, feel offended by Rushdie's novel or, rather, by reports they have read or heard about it. Very few people have actually read the dense and tortuous …"

"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fe…"

"Illustrating Tolkien means treading warily, dipping one's brush in shadow and rinsing them in light. Battle and balance, down the impossible path between the clear and the obscure."

"Ingels: The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

"The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protection…"

"From 'The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered'"

"1986 audio interview with McKuen by Don Swaim of CBS Radio, RealAudio at WiredForBooks.org"

"Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice."

"… I still think of that 8-year-old girl who loved sitting on the floor of her library, reading about animals and plants. How excited I was to read new nature books. Every time, turn to the back cover,…"

"Going to Bits. This phrase me to day and is indeed the one I have been looking for; not tragic, not mortal disintegration; only a central weakness which prevents me from concentrating or settling down…"

"There's only one thing better than reading about true crime and that's being told about it, particularly when the teller is Phoebe Judge, an American who sounds far nicer than anyone has any right to …"

"My image of a President before I came here, and before I had any hope of coming here, was that of a rubber-stamp President, to be frank. This is the image I got. But having come here, I find that the …"

"Most of Allen's works, includes full text of most of his books, quotes, information, and more."

"Alas! It is well written, "The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses."

"Take some time and put the Bible on your summer reading list. Try and stick with it cover to cover. Not because it teaches history; we've shown you it doesn't. Read it because you'll see for yourself …"

"Shut your mouth up before I buck lead and make a lot of blood shed, turn your tux red, I'm far from broke got enough bread, And mad hoes: ask Beavis I get nothin' but head"

"Having risen at my customary hour of seven, going down, tiptoeing down, and seeing the paper slanting through the letterbox, and reading the words “Heath's Gamble...” Heath's Gamble? I thought. Gamble…"

"I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret."