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Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures,

—Houghton Mifflin

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Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life.

—Jerril Thomas

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Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too...

—John Kerr

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Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds, petty criminals and others who were unable to fit into society or take...

—Mike Jay

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The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

—Mike Parry

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The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this...

—Shireen Jeejeebhoy

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I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

—Bauvard

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To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

—Argentina Palacios

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Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

—Heinz Linge

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Apesar de eu não saber ler, distinguia bem entre as letras hebraicas, impressas no lado esquerdo do devocionário, e as alemãs, no lado direito. As hebraicas agradavam-me mais: vistosas, arredondadas, levavam, por cima e por...

—Ilse Losa

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Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

—Jerril Thomas

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Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

—Marjorie Watts

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Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as ‘the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, “the wheels of the world”, are...

—John Garth

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Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that...

—Walter Isaacson

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Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low Alvar Aalto stools for the alcove and coctail bar seating. Also,...

—Tony Wilson

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I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come… -Susanna Wesley

—Arnold A. Dallimore

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It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill’s sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

—Christopher Hitchens

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Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. … According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author’s grandparents educational background.]

—James Vescovi

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The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

—Harry W.

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

—Jo Ann

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The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that...

—Mike Jay

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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level...

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The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in...

—Zulfikar Ali

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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the...

—Anne Brontë

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Broad-Based Education:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.… I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.… Itwas beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a...

—George Beahm

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Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I’ll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will...

—David Wilkerson

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When extremists come together extreme things happen.

—Jerril Thomas

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And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially when they pertain to women writers, because I think it’s really about the...

—Kate Zambreno

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The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.

—Mike Jay

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I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around the yard, sweeping leaves off the slate paths to my heart’s...

—Sissy Spacek

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You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.””She’s not clever. I did them,” yelled Frieda.”You’ll get five years.””She did them.”From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

—Robyn Quaker

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The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.

—André Frossard

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Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.

—Bentham

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A thoughtful and enlightening contribution to the literature on one of California’s ‘most idiosyncratic politicians,’ this book perceptively analyzes the tensions between the spiritual and the pragmatic that have shaped Jerry Brown’s approach to, and...

—Chuck McFadden

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Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.

—Jerril Thomas

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Jenny slowly awoke on the sacrificial altar to an Ethereal Light that flamed through the east wall, a radiant aura of love dispersing the frightful scene. A glow pulsating from Angeletta’s body still burning in...

—Judy Byington

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The world can accommodate your situation, as it accommodates all situations. And your body will keep explaining to you how it all works, this original experiment, this lifelong gift. Your body will keep describing how,...

—Sarah Hall

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I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back

—Sonali Deraniyagala

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In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that...

—Terry Lee

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Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interesting...

—Ann Patchett

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Honey, I work for money not love.

—Denele Pitts

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…no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents’ greeting.]

—James Vescovi

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River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, “If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you’re doing it.”After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, “Ah,...

—Gavin Edwards

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I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of...

—Jim Corbett

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James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

—Mike Jay

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I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?

—Rollis Fontenot

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The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people’s consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented...

—Zulfikar Ali

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Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms...

—Adam Gopnik

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Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

—Isaac Deutscher

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He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I’m still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

—George Plimpton

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