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"Arunadhati Roy is a 'one-book wonder', as a woman who has shot her literary bolt and now keeps herself in the news by making increasingly outrageous anti-Indian statements for the benefit of the forei…"

"can be achieved only by a detailed examination of the literature of the field"

"Hypertext is a representation of the text which escapes and surprises by turns," I wrote. Given the pure unaccountability a hyperfiction writer is always attuned to "how the reader will interpret the …"

"What are the Qualifications of a Secretary of State? He ought to be a Man of universal Reading in Laws, Governments, History. Our whole terrestrial Universe ought to be summarily comprehended in his M…"

"Nearly three millions of your fellow-citizens are prohibited by law and public opinion from reading the Book of Life. Your intellect has been destroyed as much as possible, and every ray of light they…"

"Aurelius Augustinus at IntraText Digital Library"

"I think that that has to be related to the problems within our own country. I was reading in the papers today that there's a grave concern about what our role should be, how it should be handled, and …"

"I feel it is something that I have to do for my children, to be able to give them a book that has kids like them in it, just incidentally. They are not the side character, they are not there as a nove…"

"At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed."

"The undergraduates lamented the high price of textbooks and the equally outrageous fact that they were expected to read them."

"What has caused confusion and misunderstanding about his Hinduism is the concept of sarva-dharma-samabhAva which he had developed after deep reflection. Christian and Muslim missionaries have interpre…"

"Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why…"

"I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness."

"What is this urge to get information we already have? Whenever I'm in a car, and I drive by a mirrored office building, I look in the reflection to see if I'm in the car. This is information I already…"

"The New York Review of Books: Joan Didion"

"Books by Scott Adams"

"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage."

"For me is a manner of philosophizing ... Philosophy may be only a shadow of the reality it tries to grasp, but the novel is altogether more satisfactory. I am almost tempted to say that no philosopher…"

"Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls. p. 151"

"A section from the last essay written by Isaiah Berlin, the New York Review of Books, Vol. XLV, Number 8 ."