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“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”

Source: Brown: The Last Discovery of America

“I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.”

Brain Pieces Subjects Produce Paper Humorous Capacity Productions Defined Division Frontiers

Book:Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

Source: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions

“What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.”

Ifs Stills Ideas Subjects Paper Magazines Plenty Not Sure Something New Print

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.”

Knows Way Writing Doe School Brain Class Subjects Expression Paper Pens My Thoughts English Class

Author:David McCullough

“Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!”

Children Country Half Subjects Paper Papers Touchy Molestation

Author:Woody Allen