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"...Synge was over here selling out and gave me his play to read–a play which is to be produced by the Irish Literary Theatre. I criticised it. Synge says I have a mind like Spinoza! ..."

"Frank Sinatra is the first punk... punk comes out of nowhere... punk is... a rumor that spreads... that guts and perseverence mean more than anything else..."

"reading is at the beginning of the social contract"

"Lillian Smith Book Awards"

"Red Poppy a non-profit dedicated to furthering Neruda's commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the world. Home of the critically acclaimed, bestselling "The Essential Neruda: Se…"

"When President Dwight Eisenhower undermined and humiliated Britain and France at Suez in 1956, it was only the most blatant of many American efforts to cut Europe down to size and reduce its already w…"

"The Tibetan Book of the Dead is ostensibly a book describing the experiences to be expected at the moment of death, during an intermediate phase lasting forty-nine days, and during rebirth into anothe…"

"There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."

"I wake up angry every morning and start reading. Then I'm furious."

"For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive …"

"I know what he means: the taste of language that is only spoken and never written because the speaker most likely doesn't read or write. My father has it, too."

"After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestica…"

"Our government should consider the internet as the most crucial matter. There should be wireless access to the internet all over Turkey and all kinds of restrictions on the internet should be abolishe…"

"The Booker T. Washington Papers, University of Illinois site"

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

"He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning."

"Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions"

"It wouldn’t be surprising if you had missed the Associated Press report about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing that the United States “will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Cour…"

"It is a general observation that people write as they read. As a rule, careful writers are careful readers and vice versa. A careful writer wants to be read carefully. He cannot know what it means to …"

"Designed as a companion volume to the acclaimed Object-Oriented Analysis, this book focuses on the middle part of the software lifecycle: the activity of design. It shows readers how to apply object-o…"