“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
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Source: prevale.net
“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 2, Protocols of Wealth, p. 56
“Let's give them something to talk about, other than H A I R!”
Sanjaya Malakar (1989) American reality television personality
Singing his farewell American Idol performance, ad-libbed in place of "how about love". http://niralimagazine.com/2007/04/he-may-be-gone-but-sanjaya-is-still-our-papaya
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Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
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