“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The gift of the family novelist is to turn the cleaning of a closet into an inventory of love and loss-to scan a poem from a shopping list. ”
- Marilyn Gardner- Copy
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“ Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author's. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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