
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"

"Like a modern bridal gown, the brilliance of the shuttle on her maiden voyage shrouds the complex realities of a human story"

"In India, the elites shout themselves hoarse about emulating America – in its wealth, its swaggering confidence, its Hummers and parking lots."

"The buildings became symbols as well as tools of oppression, with the military attacking civilians from the rooftops."

"All these gentlemen know perfectly well who I am, and yet in your case I'm pretty sure..."

“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

"The future belongs to crowds."

"curious words of encouragement and irritating compliments which were already there before she took her first step outside"

"Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human."

"Marie had kept her ardent love of Benoit's out-of-print book a secret. She had discovered a translated edition of the novel in the prison library."

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


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

"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

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

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

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More