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“That man of us is imperishable who makes his century imperishable. That man of us who seizes upon the salient facts of our life, who tells us what we thought, what we were, and for what we stood—that man shall be the mouthpiece to the
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“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― The American Crisis
― The American Crisis
“It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”
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“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
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[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
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Fly Fish Literati
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Fly Fish Literati is a group of readers dedicated to those writers who have blended the experience of fly fishing with Literature (with a capital L). ...more
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A group for residents of Western Massachusetts.
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