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The greater pleasures of reading the LRB are thus paid for in a more erratic and limited horizon.

— Perry Anderson Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)

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Great men have foibles for which they can be forgiven; including an occasional failure to see where their greatness lies, or what might diminish it.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)

With the euro, that form of pressure has gone.

Putin’s control of the media is becoming more and more comprehensive. What is left over, that ownership does not ensure, self-censorship increasingly neuters. The Gleichschaltung of parliament and political parties is, if anything, even more impressive.

The – now shop-worn – label of ‘magical realism’ is customarily applied to Márquez’s novels. It has never fitted Vargas Llosa, who disavows the adjective.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)

Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas (2005)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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