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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a targ

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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There are many persons pretending to have a refined literary taste, who seldom read any books but those which are fashionable… – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything — history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch. – J. A. Primo De Rivera

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He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin

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