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Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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