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Quote of the Day | 0401

The only way we can understand words like God, angel, devil, ghost, is through stories, since these entities do not allow themselves to be known in other ways, or not to the likes of me. Here not only is the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0403

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

The cultivated not only know a great deal but, more important, they know what is significant--they know, not to put too fine a point on it, what is really worth knowing. Part of being a cultivated person is knowing what to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

Telling stories, constructing narratives out of the chaos of our lives, fantasizing about what could be — they’re all in our blood. Putting it down on paper is an act of optimism. It’s willful, and it helps us make sense ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

Today, longform is a 1,500-word article. Evan Williams has this online publishing platform called Medium, which is these little essays, but it’s longform compared to tweets or Facebook updates. In reality, if I write an 800-word piece on CNN, it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0405

The internet age is so young that we’re worried, and intrigued, by how it will shape us–we simply have no idea. The single most fascinating aspect of my detox was the number of people who wanted to talk to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0407

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0408

Who has an AOL account these days? Not that long ago, AOL was the single most powerful player on the Internet. Who has a MySpace account these days? MySpace sold for billions of dollars not that long ago. I’m very ...

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Quote of the Day | 0409

"During the course of my three tours, the rules of engagement changed a lot," Washburn's testimony continued, "The higher the threat the more viciously we were permitted and expected to respond. Something else we were encouraged to do, almost with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

In 20 years, the space of one generation, print books will be as rare as vinyl LPs. You’ll still be able to find them in artsy hipster stores, but that’s about it. So the great advantage of e-books is also ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

In the early days I thought it was a condition sine qua non that you had to believe, otherwise it’s a bad book. Then I think it changed. Actually, with Gantenbein I took the position that everything was offered as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

The reason why politicians say so many crazy things and favour so many policies that seem indefensible is that democracy is a popularity contest and the electorate wants what we’re getting Bryan Caplan, in: 'When it comes to politics, is ignorance ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

Thanks to the rise of networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat, the way we express ourselves, as individuals and as citizens, is in a state of upheaval. Radically biased toward space and against time, social media is inherently destabilizing. What ...

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Quote of the Day | 0411

What does the modern reader want in a book review? They want authenticity. They want honesty. They want to identify and relate to YOU, not to be impressed by your fluency with words like "limn" or "luminous," or "magisterial." Michelle ...

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Quote of the Day | 0411

6. It is getting harder and harder every year to sell books. Many book categories have become entirely saturated, with a surplus of books on every topic. It is increasingly difficult to make any book stand out. Each book is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0412

To Ula from Sopot: “A definition of poetry in one sentence—well. We know at least five hundred definitions, but none of them strikes us as both precise and capacious enough. Each expresses the taste of its own age. Inborn skepticism ...

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Quote of the Day | 0412

I was not aware, before, what a creativity machine the brain is, and how each of us sees a different view of art because we have different brain responses to it, and how, even for simple perception, there is not ...

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Quote of the Day | 0413

The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness ...

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Quote of the Day | 0413

Philosophy can and should deal with important issues. It should enable us both to understand our place in the world and to live in it. And yet what troubles me is that the structure of our profession is in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0414

Who reads fiction? Who reads Amis, Barnes, Faulks, Boyd, Jacobson, Cartwright as well as Howard, Mantel, the two Smiths (Zadie and Ali), Tremain, Drabble, Ellmann, Byatt, Freud, O’Farrell? The answer is: women. Men who read fiction are in a minority. They ...

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Quote of the Day | 0414

the way people share information on Twitter bears some similarities to the way they shared it more than 200 years before the service was created in 2006, according to Cornell professor Lee Humphreys, who has been comparing messages from Twitter ...

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Quote of the Day | 0416

The Internet is no topic like cellphones or videogame platforms or artificial intelligence; it's a topic like education. It's that big. Therefore beware: to become a teacher, master some topic you can teach; don't go to Education School and master ...

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Quote of the Day | 0417

How to respond, then, to this now permanent condition of overproduction? With cheerful skepticism. With gratitude for those rare occasions when we come across a book that speaks to us personally. With forgiveness for those critics and publishers who induce ...

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Quote of the Day | 0417

just what is democracy based on, if common sense is never what it seems? The answer seems to be that it's based, in the end, only on a naive hope that something like common-sense exists -- that there really is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0417

The city of Austin, Texas, also learned the perils of public voting after a poll to rename the Solid Waste Services Department ended up with an overwhelming number of votes to call it The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities ...

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Quote of the Day | 0418

After the tyranny of the military dictatorships he realised that the armed road had been a disaster, that the Cuban revolution could not be imitated blindly. The birth of new social movements and the Bolivarian victories were both a source ...

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Quote of the Day | 0419

for most of us, when we’re awake and not moving, we’re sitting. This is your body on chairs: Electrical activity in the muscles drops — “the muscles go as silent as those of a dead horse,” Hamilton says — ...

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Quote of the Day | 0420

As we revisit the objects of our reading, like recognizable but weathered landmarks, there can be no full going back, because we are not exactly the same people we were; but the consolation of rereading is the knowledge that we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0423

The book has gas and runs out of gas, fills up again, goes dry. It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is fifteen hundred pages long.... At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble ...

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Quote of the Day | 0423

Over the centuries, Facts became such a prevalent part of most people's lives that Irish philosopher Edmund Burke once said: "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body." To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0425

Into the vacuum left by the humanities comes science, which by its own admission is unconcerned with the large questions of meaning and purpose. Even so, on campus and elsewhere, science is now taken as the final authority on any ...

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Quote of the Day | 0426

Back in 2009, O'Leary did this for one publisher, O'Reilly Media, which publishes technical books. Surprisingly, he found that sales actually increased after their books showed up on pirate sites. Piracy seems to have boosted sales. O'Leary says people may ...

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Quote of the Day | 0427

thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived. Brandon Klein, in Wired Science

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Quote of the Day | 0428

The most obvious symptom of the CSI effect is that jurors think they have a thorough understanding of science they have seen presented on television, when they do not. The Economist: The “CSI effect”

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Quote of the Day | 0428

We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our own ideas about the world to the test of public controversy. Information, usually understood ...

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Quote of the Day | 0429

a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel – from open to closed system. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0430

As literary fiction, Gatsby holds up the table for everything we've been told for decades books are "supposed to do": to set up what's going to happen at the end of the story on the very first page, and to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

Many earlier novels are still deceptively short by modern standards. A typical SF novel of the 1960s was 70,000 words long. By the 1980s, 80,000 words was the norm; by the 1990s it had bloated to 100-120,000 words. Why?Charles Stross, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

If any inkling about the way the world works and the manner in which human nature is constituted were to be remotely available to me during my stay on the planet, I should have the best chance of discovering it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

there is a serious cost to excess certainty. Whenever an analyst or academic presents a number or a conclusion with too much precision, they reduce the demand for better evidence. Why run a pilot, set up a proper survey, if ...

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Quote of the Day | 0503

A daily dose of reading may lengthen your lifespan. A team at Yale University followed more than 3600 adults over the age of 50 for 12 years. They discovered that people who reported reading books for 30 minutes a day ...

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Quote of the Day | 0503

In recent years I have come to think that some of the worst people in the United States have gone to the Harvard or Yale Law Schools: Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Spitzer, Mr. and Mrs. William Clinton, and countless -others. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0505

Although it is easier than ever to watch programmes at a time and on a device of one’s choosing, and people expect to be able to do so, nearly all TV is nonetheless watched live on a television set. [...] “People ...

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Quote of the Day | 0506

there is a flood of information to filter, encode, organise, retain, and later retrieve, from newspapers, radio, television and the internet. Voters are inundated with information, and as the authors explain, “the field of cognitive psychology teaches us that, when ...

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Quote of the Day | 0508

most acts of revision are nothing more than attempts to make sure what you have written fits current rules and fashions. Conformity isn’t revision. Jim Heynen, 'Becoming Your Own Best Critic'

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Quote of the Day | 0508

Why don't we have big ideas or dreams any more? "Because now that there's nothing more important than you, how can you ever lose yourself in a grander idea? We're frightened of eccentricity, of loneliness. Individualism just wants to keep ...

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Quote of the Day | 0509

Sagan, speaking from the point of view of an astrophysicist, pointed out that there are innumerable planets just like ours. There is no reason they shouldn’t have developed intelligent life. Mayr, from the point of view of a biologist, argued ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

If you know that your writing comes from “a certain unreasonableness of feeling,” then you may find yourself thinking constantly about what would be reasonable. You may focus on seeing things—seeing “it”—clearly. In Larkin, “it” is constantly being reduced, framed, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

Bookshelves will survive in the homes of serious digital-age readers, but their contents will be much more judiciously curated. Michael Agresta, 'What Will Become of the Paper Book?'

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Quote of the Day | 0510

If all money is controlled electronically (or digitally, as it is now), it can be switched off instantaneously. I’m just saying. Margaret Atwood, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale is being read very differently now’ Boeklog on The Handmaid's Tale

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Quote of the Day | 0510

A study at Harvard University has shown that volunteers who were exposed to bursts of rose scent as they slept after studying were better able to recall the material, even without being exposed to the scent again. The odour intensified ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

It’s not altogether clear why fruits have changed less than vegetables, but it might have something to do with their evolutionary purpose. Plants developed sugary fruits millions of years ago so that sweet-toothed mammals would gobble them up and disseminate ...

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Quote of the Day | 0511

Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory. Scott D. Weitzenhoffer, as cited ...

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Quote of the Day | 0511

For a long time, scientists thought myopia was primarily determined by our genes. But about 10 years ago, it became clear that the way children were growing up was harming their eyesight, too. The effect is starkest in east Asia, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0513

by putting a work forth into the marketplace (of ideas), you are acknowledging that it may be debated, cut apart, written about, or otherwise dissected in ways that are beyond the author’s control and may make him or her uncomfortable. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0514

Amazon reviewers hold two principles in common: “First, a book, whether nonfiction or fiction, must supply 'uplift.' Who wants to spend hours on a downer? And even more demandingly, the characters in a novel must be likable. Uplift and pleasantness: ...

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Quote of the Day | 0514

Oftentimes there’s wisdom in a field, where it’s known to people who have thought about it for a long time, but they don’t write it down. Bryan Caplan, in: 'Learning across Disciplines'

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Quote of the Day | 0515

the right not to vote is one of our most important freedoms. Peter Hitchens Broer van...

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Quote of the Day | 0515

George Orwell is anyone's bitch. Whatever the topic, whatever the political position, he can be wheeled out in support to enunciate universal truths in a voice as compelling as the ghost in Hamlet. From voting reform to CCTV, from Trident ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Even Einstein will have spent large parts of his life thinking about ...

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Relative to consumer reviews, professional critics are less favorable to first-time authors. This suggests that one potential advantage of consumer reviews is that they are quicker to identify new and unknown books.'What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

as many people have observed, bright ideas emerge from the swirling mix of other ideas, not from isolated minds. Jane Jacobs, the great observer of urban life, looked for innovation in cities, not on Pacific islands. But once a new ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

It has occurred to me recently that this era was not just the Golden Age of Cycling, but it was the Golden Age, period. Dave Moulton Bike Blog

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Gas had one irresistible advantage, however. It was bright – at least compared with anything else the pre-electric world knew. The average room with gas was 20 times brighter than it had been before. It wasn't an intimate light – ...

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Quote of the Day | 0519

“Many biologists, including sociobiologists, argue that morality is a biologically determined trait,” Ayala told PhysOrg.com. “Most philosophers and theologians see morality as a product of cultural evolution and/or religious faith. I distinguish between the ‘capacity for ethics,’ which is biologically ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

You talk about capitalism, politics and inequality a lot. Do you ever tire of it? Do you ever wish someone would ask you about something else? Well, from my point of view, there are two major categories of issues. There ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is ...

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God's wrath was supposed to begin in New Zealand and then race across the globe, leaving millions of bodies wherever the clock struck 6 p.m. But the hours ticked by, and New Zealand survived. Time zone by time zone, the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0522

Countries don’t really recover from being taken over by unstable authoritarian nationalists of any political bent, left or right—not by Peróns or Castros or Putins or Francos or Lenins or fill in the blanks. The nation may survive, but the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0523

Moderator: Welcome to Obsolete Anonymous! I've gathered you all here to welcome our latest member, the Print Industry. Print Industry: Hello, everyone. But there's been a mistake. I don't belong here. (chuckles all around) [...] J.A. Konrath, 'Is Print Dead?'

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Quote of the Day | 0523

When people ask whether I've read this or that book, I've found that a safe answer is, "You know, I don't read, I write." That shuts them up. Umberto Eco, 'I'm a writer not a reader' In Nederland inmiddels al verramsjt, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0526

multitasking, at least as our culture has come to know and love and institutionalize it, is a myth. When you think you’re doing two things at once, you’re almost always just switching rapidly between them, leaking a little mental efficiency ...

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Quote of the Day | 0527

We have been through – and seem to be continuing in – a rather extraordinary phase of global history, in which winners keep taking all even as they destroy the system that feeds them at so much cost to itself. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0528

The world is full of jolly places but these do not interest me at all. I hate vacations and luxurious hotels are no fun to read about. I want to read about the miserable, or difficult, or inhospitable places; the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

actors, playwrights and novelists are not literally attempting to deceive us, because the rules are laid out in advance: come to the theatre, or open this book, and we’ll lie to you. Perhaps this is why we felt it necessary ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

The essayist is interested in thinking about himself thinking about things. We believe our opinions on everything from politics to pizza parlors to be of great import. This explains our generosity in volunteering them to complete strangers. And as D.I.Y. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

the thing that has helped me empathise with and try to argue in a friendly and helpful way with bad reasoning and the people who engage in it, has been entirely from the real, practical work. In medicine you come ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply ...

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Quote of the Day | 0530

to those who think it is fictionally exaggerated I only say try it first and see. Because it can never be as bad in fiction as it is in real life. Ken Kesey, 'Letters of Note'

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Today, too, in the literary world, a certain aristocracy sees its sun setting: the aristocracy of critics, editors, publishers, and tastemakers, still overwhelmingly white, if slightly less overwhelmingly male, who may be just beginning to realize that—for simple demographic reasons, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0531

searching for answers in libraries and books is limited to but one subsection of the world’s population: students and professors and scientists and the odd intellectually rigorous laypeople. Most folks go online for “facts” and read sites like Wikipedia, which ...

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Quote of the Day | 0601

The entire impulse behind Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks assumes that you cannot read a book unless you own it first — and only you can read it unless you want to pass on your device. That goes against the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0602

in a world where ever fewer people care about, or even understand the nature of, fiction, where readers and viewers demand facts and reality, outdated books of supposedly impartial information can be a useful reminder of just how slippery facts ...

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The critic and erstwhile blogger Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, a polemic against online habits, makes a list of "five open supersecrets" about bloggers: Not everyone has something valuable to say. Few people have anything original to say. Only a handful of ...

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BLVR: So how do you read? Do you read as a writer, an academic, or a fan? MS: No one ever gave me any flashcards telling me the difference between those things. I read like someone who has been subjected ...

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Quote of the Day | 0607

You should never just read for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior; or better yet, your own. Pick ‘hard books.’ Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0607

traditional publishers know what their authors sold (how many copies, when, where, in what genre) but they don’t know who bought them. Amazon does – perforce, it’s on Internet, every transaction is written, a complete contract between seller and buyer, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0609

Life is a concert with a trombone soloist filling in for Yehudi Menuhin. Ogden Nash [with audio]

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Quote of the Day | 0610

Now that anyone is free to print whatever they wish, they often disregard that which is best and instead write, merely for the sake of entertainment, what would best be forgotten, or, better still be erased from all books. Niccolò Perotti, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0611

the book industry sells “books”. What they need to do is sell their “authors”. Authors now are brands, they are businesses, they are mini-empires. Publishers do nothing to help 95% of their authors build their platforms and their own brands. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0611

American thought doesn’t seem interested whatsoever in studying, for example, why even a nation like Spain has five years’ higher life expectancy than America now, why American democracy was so fragile, why American living standards are the lowest in the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it interest me? (3) Is it well constructed? Writers also ask these questions, but two others along ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

The average music buyer is younger than the average book buyer. Young people have long been a primary market for popular music. Young people also tend to have the spare time, the tech savvy, the obliviousness to risk, the constrained ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

• question labels I loved reading the syndicated Sidney J. Harris column in my hometown paper –The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent – when I was growing up in the ’70s. It got me thinking about language, its complexity and how perspectives vary. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0615

I argue that the mother tongue has considerable influence on the way we think and perceive the world. But there's a great deal of historical baggage attached to this question and so most respectable psychologists and linguists won't touch ...

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Quote of the Day | 0615

Politics may be a necessary evil—but talking incessantly about politics and viewing your countrymen solely through a political lens is an evil that we’re actively choosing, day by day. We should stop. Ian Marcus Corbin, 'Reading Dangerously'

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Quote of the Day | 0616

Although new fossil and archaeological evidence continues to mount, the driving force in understanding human evolution today, as Chris Stringer emphasises, is genomic. It is now possible to compare the genomes of Neanderthals with modern humans and with chimpanzees. This ...

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Quote of the Day | 0616

I had become somewhat uneasy about throwing my reviews into what seemed like a great silence. Readers never responded to my reviews. I received only one letter from a Yorkshire Post reader, and that was a horticultural lady who responded ...

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Quote of the Day | 0617

Here is the deepest and, to many serious journalists, most disturbing truth about the future of news: The audience will control it. They will get the kind of news they choose to get. Not the kind they say they want, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0617

In France, boredom is given a philosophical tincture; in England, an aristocratic one: Lord Byron, having seen and done it all, is the perfect type of the bored English aristocrat. George Santayana, travelling on a student fellowship from Harvard, made ...

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