"I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?"

-- Lorrie Moore

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“We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.”
“My previous visits to Australia created fantastic memories, so I'm definitely looking forward to another visit. It is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think every person in the entire country is nice. Seriously, I haven't seen or heard of a mean person yet. And they love country music.”
“I founded this school for the masses.”
“But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.”
“I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.”
“The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.”
“Everything Brecht wroteâ€”plays, dialogues, and poetryâ€”was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brechtâ€™s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to todayâ€™s artistsâ€”who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on â€˜localâ€™ angst.”
“While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.”

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