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Among history's greatest literary figures, Dickens' name is listed alongside Shakespeare's. He was the most widely read author of his time. Soldiers in the American Civil War carried his books to read aloud around nightly campfires. He was more popular in Russia than many of the great Russian novelists. His twenty novels are all still in print, and he remains popular today.

The politics of the day didn't interest her. What captivated her were historical events and developments and the millennia that preceded them.

To be 'radical', after all, means aiming at the roots of troubles; to be radical in the chronic emergency is to aim at the ecological roots of perpetual disasters.

Southern Journey: My Return to the Civil Rights Movement.

Moreover, using America and Americanization as a convenient bogeyman to garner points in an internal conflict that has nothing to do with America certainly is not confined to Germany.

Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Do you know what demonic metal is?" I said, "I assume it's heavy metal with a lot of pretentious references to demons. Plus gothic typography, of course.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.

Southerners who had insisted on states' rights now demanded federal intervention to enforce what they considered their property rights.

Of our desires, some are natural and necessary, others are natural but not necessary, and others are neither natural nor necessary, but due to groundless opinion. — EPICURUS

We were not so great at what we did—or at least I wasn't—and I liked it that way: that no one seemed to care about the quality of any of this, any measurable greatness. We were tiny people, but our tininess was at times formidable.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

'Blind Curve ' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

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The Protestant reformation, in the eyes of many evangelicals, implied a social and political revolution as well.

Also you would have to make your novel very sad—the world demands that gay life, like the life of the Very Rich, be ultimately sad,

The Weinberger Doctrine created a series of tests, in essence preconditions for any policy decision that might put American troops into harm's way.

this another example of Federation hypocrisy? These people reduced all political complexity to pious platitudes, while they constructed the greatest empire in the history of the Alpha Quadrant.

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.