"The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers."

-- Harold Bloom

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“I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.”
“His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; His service freedom, and His judgments right.”
“If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.”
“So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.”

Source : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
“For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.”
“What a comfort to know that God is a poet.”
“Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.”
“The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.”

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