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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. — Alan M. Dershowitz
If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us a — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at th — Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations: Stories
Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled. — Ken Poirot
As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold. — A.J. Garces
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no l — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
It’s not the word that’s important, it’s the right to say any word you want to and to form any sentence you want to, tha — Arun D. Ellis, Daydream Believers
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions bec — Doris Lessing
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don — Charlie Brooker
The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cu — Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. — Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World
The Delores tank rolled on inexorably, “You get a mortgage to buy a house, a larger mortgage than the previous owner bec — Arun D. Ellis, Corpalism
I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging throu — Carroll Bryant
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
The premise that America’s power and influence was rooted in its wealth was wrong to begin with. To the contrary, our st — Rick Elkin, Turn Right at Lost: Recalulating America
Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable t — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. “Martin, Martin, Martin,” she said, “t — Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provid — Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism...inventions of things which they — Matt Haig, The Humans