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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
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  • Religious

• I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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  • Literature

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
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  • Jesus

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
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• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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  • Film

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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  • Changes

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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• The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
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  • See
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• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

  

  David Shields
  • Literature

• There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to do things when I was younger was more about being outrageous, and there was a lot of ego involved in that.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
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  • Made

• Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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