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"I have read your letter of October 26th with great care and welcomed the statement of your desire to seek a prompt solution to the problem. The first thing that needs to be done, however, is for work …"

"Jo Walton's Web page"

"I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me and express myself entirely. I'm like a g…"

"Some kinds of hormones, the 'steroids', pass readily into the brain, but the 'peptide' hormones produced by the pituitary, the gut, and any other glands do not easily pass through the walls of brain c…"

"From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on th…"

"If men are to meet steel with steel, they should be adequately armed. Long spears and short swords to meet a charge of long swords. If you dont believe that, read the chronicles of Rome and Macedonia."

"Jeremy Bentham, biographical profile, including quotes and further resources in Introduction to Utilitarianism: An Online Textbook"

"Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series : Audio collection, 1979–1987 : A Finding Aid, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University"

"When I read the Upanishads, I found a profundity of world view that made my Christianity seem like third grade."

"One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author."

"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."

"The whole afternoon was spent rejoicing as the demonstration spread across the city; no one walked alone for all San Juan was a single family."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be …"

"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not cons…"

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."

"“I’ll drive. You navigate.” He grinned. “I judge people by how well they read maps."

"“From what I’ve read,” I said to him, “the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again."

"I'm a bit of a wandering gypsy on the pitch. A midfielder constantly on the lookout for an unspoilt corner where I can move freely just for a moment...A space where I can continue to profess my creed:…"

"I may be only a "fish and chip shop lady", but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery…"