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For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it prov...more

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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

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His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary sali...more

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His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a r...more

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In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them ...more

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At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences...more

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Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I ...more