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“The basic formula for a best-seller is either standard
mediocrity or the delusion created by an illusion.”
― The Rogue of Publisher's Row
mediocrity or the delusion created by an illusion.”
― The Rogue of Publisher's Row
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
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“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
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“Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.”
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Avis’s 2025 Year in Books
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