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"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"

"Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is …"

"I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men."

"Bowing to the reality of harried lives, Rudwick recognizes that not everyone will read every word of the meaty second section; he even explicitly gives us permission to skip if we get “bogged down in …"

"Meanwhile, the Stalinist historiansn had jumped into the fray. A letter written by this gang accusing the daily of "giving a communal twist to news items and even editorial comments." The "provocation…"

"Will tomorrow ever come? This depends upon the purposes, aims, desires, hopes and fears! Does the body desire to get well? Is God in his Heaven? Are the lives and activities of those ye touch helped t…"

"Nancy Mace has written a wonderful, timeless memoir of the great test to become the first female graduate of The Citadel. Her book is provocative, hilarious, illuminating, and true. It is also a love …"

"It is always the unreadable that occurs."

"In a certain sense the phrase "I am still alive" can never be sent as it cannot be received by the addressee instantaneously...It is only valid at the very instant that it is being written, and in the…"

"I really find listening to and reading the work of lyricists and songwriters as essential to my work as reading poetry itself. It is all poetry."

"Op-Ed written by Kranz for The Hill"

"It is a dual thing – you belong and you don’t. I remember the Ghanaian passport official reading my name correctly and it felt like the biggest, warmest welcome. At the same time, I understand my nati…"

"We are supposedly a country at war, but we’re all going about watching American Idol and having not all that different a time than if we weren’t at war. I observe the weird juxtaposition of reading th…"

"My wealth is my shelf of books!"

"How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?"

"I invariably, after great familiarity with a film, concoct a personal way of reading it that relies entirely on information which a public audience would, I feel, have scant interest. I might travel f…"

"He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library."

"I was pleased to get a copy of Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light the other day. It's one of my favourite books It's got a blurb from me on it, which I hope sells many copies."

"Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Women Working, 1870-1930, Louis Brandeis . A full-text searchable online database with complete access to publications written by Louis Brandeis."

"If you look at the American army's counterinsurgency literature , it begins with an analysis of the German experience in Europe, written with the cooperation of Nazi officers. Everything is described …"