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Remembrance of things past

Sometimes, I look back into my life to see how much of it was real and how much was made up. It is an important question and applies to everyone who ever lived. Not that I am a liar, but I admit that...

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The Quotable Sherlock Homes

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” -The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” -A Scandal in...

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The Quotable Hitchens

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” “The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our...

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The Quotable Reader

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining...

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The Quotable Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” “Anger is an acid that...

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The Quotable Mark Twain 2

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” “All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.”...

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Wodehouse on Quotations

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All your books!

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Bradbury on Not Reading

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The Quotable Hitchens – 2

“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.” “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who...

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Carl Sagan on the Magic of Books

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The Quotable Atheist

“Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he...

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A doze of Dostoyevsky for today?

This morning I woke up feeling a little different and decided to give up mid-way what I was reading till last night – The Honorable Schoolboy by John le Carre. Instead, just before leaving for work, I...

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