His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to...

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.