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Mrs. Read Mrs. Read said: " Actually, I have successfully taught several old dogs new tricks, but apparently I am either too old a dog or perhaps have lost some of my training chops, because despite a history of unvarying failure at Booker-type prize winners, I have not learned ...more "

 
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Mrs. Read Mrs. Read said: " I began reading Haberman’s Confidence Man as an account of an admittedly recent, but nonetheless historical person/period. Current events say “Not so fast, Mrs. Read,” so I’m putting the book on hold until the dust settles. If it ever does. "

 
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Arthur Schopenhauer
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Muriel Spark
“it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.”
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
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Edward Hallett Carr
“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”
Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines

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