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"Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln"

"People don’t seem to rob bookstores much, more’s the pity for them."

"This book is past the first flush of youth. It is a book that is in puberty. It is hesitating, and from the vantage point of the mature reader, it is both a sad and amusing reminder of the part which …"

"No nineteenth-century writer could have written this nineteenth-century tale; but few twentieth-century writers could have handled its simplicities in the way this one does."

"Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wo…"

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbeliev…"

"I generally keep upto date with recent academic writings in law and literature; and to keep myself upto date I also subscribe to and browse through the New York Review of Books – a bi-weekly feature w…"

"Indian authors are right in pointing out that this is systematically the weakest part in AIT argumentations, as the knowledge of Vedic literature among Western scholars is either too limited or too di…"

"Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables peop…"

"The Works of Mr. John Cleveland — full text online at GoogleBooks."

"Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion."

"When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde."

"The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia Of American Literature, 2nd Edition"

"If I live to be a hundred--and I hope I do--I won't have time to read all the books I want to read, or talk to the people I want to know. Not party talk. That's a waste of time. Real talk."

"Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it."

"For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions…"

"A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country."

"In law school, I never understood . I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then."

"Bibliography, with book covers on FantasticFiction"

"You can only learn so much by reading. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book."