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Even ivory towers need central heating.


Breyten Breytenbach


#new-york-times-review #poetry #satire #satire

Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong opinions.” “Then sir, you may say so. The ruder you are, the more the editors will be delighted.” “But it is my own opinions which I wish to make better known, not other people's.” “Ah, but, sir,” said Lascelles, “it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.” “Hmm,” said Mr Norrell thoughtfully, “you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place.


Susanna Clarke


#publishing #reviews #satire #satire

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.


Kiersten White


#evie #spanish

May what lies ahead of this warrior or behind him never take from me what is inside of him, for it is mine.


Amy A. Bartol


#russell #intuition

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.


Martin Amis


#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.


Bill Gaede


#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.


Veronica Rossi


#love #romance #love

There's ALWAYS a book.


Cleolinda Jones


#movies

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.


Michael Bolton


#along #doing #had #make #sing

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared.


Jo Bonner


#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation






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