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“The American Wasps form very fine paper, like ours; they extract the fiber of common wood of the countries where they live. They teach us that paper can be made from the fiber of plants without the use of rags and linen.”
― Paper: Paging Through History
― Paper: Paging Through History
“Bombay that morning of 28 February 1948, Platt and his men had put the final full stop to the British imperial adventure. Twenty-five years later, by that”
― Freedom at Midnight
― Freedom at Midnight
“Human beings need to give and receive love. Does it really matter whom we choose to love so long as we are loving?”
― On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
― On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
“Your reading should be fun. We only call them literary works. Really, though, it's all a form of play. So play, Dear Reader, play. And fare thee well.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“We all love a good story, a concise explanation of how the world works. We all love an easy buck. Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again. This is how it happened in 1929.”
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
― 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
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