That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott Category: Reading
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker Category: Reading
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett Category: Reading
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland Category: Poetry
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. – Mikhail Bakunin Category: Freedom
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – Abbott Joseph Liebling, “Do You Belong in Journalism?” The New Yorker, May 1960 Category: Censorship
