
Ben Ehrenreich
"I adore few humans more than I love books."

"I adore few humans more than I love books."

"The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society."

Wants "to lead you from your first spatula purchase through your expert entertaining undertakings."

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

"Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here."

"I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others."

"I learn things late — and only the hard way."

"Despite my lovely diction I am going to die."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

An expert in Arabic and Persian, he has lived throughout the Middle East

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More