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Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

Sylvia Plath
“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
Sylvia Plath

John Fante
“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”
John Fante

Walter Cronkite
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite

Ernest Hemingway
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway

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