"A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Ben H. Winters

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“Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.”
“You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hank Williams Jr. from Jun 17, 2016
“It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.”
“A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so. Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.1, Seven Stories Press
“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
“I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.”
“The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.”
“Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work”

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