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“The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.”

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Nancy Banks-Smith, born in 1929, is an outstanding journalist known for her in-depth investigative reporting and keen insight into social issues. more

“A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.”

Men Children Matter Form Used Humanity Bits Written Expression Projects Stones Letters Woods Bones Thrown Iron Boundless Inscriptions

Author:Mohammed Dib

“At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.”

Black Water Nature Tree Sky Reflection Remains Clarity Desert Atmosphere Visible Reign Twisted Spine Countryside Jars Granite All That Remains

Author:Mohammed Dib

“Good readers make much out of little.”

Littles Book Reading Reader Books And Reading

Book:A Critic's Notebook

Source: A Critic's Notebook

“Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.”

Sometimes Speak Comedy Bears Civilization Ill Civility Concealed Farce Animus

Book:A Critic's Notebook

Source: A Critic's Notebook

“The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.”

Looks Philosophy Seems Able Literature Modern Messages Guidance Modern Literature

Book:Celebrations and attacks: thirty years of literary and cultural commentary

Source: Celebrations and attacks: thirty years of literary and cultural commentary

“No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society”

Mind Doe Self Individual Space Shapes Visible Abstraction Elusive

Author:Irving Howe

“Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.”

Turns Speak Taste Lips Shoulders Atmosphere Phrases Curls

Book:A Critic's Notebook

Source: A Critic's Notebook

“America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.”

Has Beens America Sports Baseball Procession Blackboard

Author:W. P. Kinsella

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