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Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

My overriding feeling in writing this book has been one of frustration at not being able to dwell at requisite length on the many threads that make up this exceptional story.

The democratic and civic instinct in that part of Europe today is largely the product of the two decades of freedom secured by Pi?sudski and his armies on the Vistula in 1920.

It was a simpler explanation, and, implausible as it might appear, it was comfortably understandable.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked.

Bad prose is the bugbear of genre fiction.

Dear family, you are the author of your destiny. In your hands is the ending of your story and the start of a new one each time a baby is born. God knows what He's doing.

He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

Judgment, than which nothing is more strict Hell, than which nothing is more terrible Paradise, than which nothing is more delightful

Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.

By Hades, I wish Goodreads.com would make it mandatory to cite the literary source in quotes.

I salute you as the Gates of Death

Lean Freedom is Better than Fat Slavery Aesop

Because anger is the ultimate expression of pride, anger and a feeling of closeness to God are mutually exclusive.

The least among you [the Sages] has the capacity to revive the dead (Avodah Zarah 10b)

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

I know this seems quaint, but back in 2008, Republicans did not consider demeaning and degrading women to be senatorial, let alone presidential.

Some readers might think that because I am so successful, I have never made a mistake.

Yes, Roger Ailes, who actually was very funny and who, as far as I know, did not sexually harass anyone during the two hours he was with us. Between

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives. But

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval. That