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“This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.”
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“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
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“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
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“I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
Q&A with Tara Ison
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Join author Tara Ison from Nov 1-8, 2012 for a Q&A on her debut novel "A Child out of Alcatraz," available for the first time in all digital formats. ...more
Steven’s 2024 Year in Books
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