"As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007."

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Robert Darnton

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“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
“Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?”
“Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.”
“I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere.”
“For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.”

Source : "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”
“It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.”

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