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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

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Walt Whitman, American Poet

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Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

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"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."

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"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."

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"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."

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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."

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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."

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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."

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"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."

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"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."

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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."

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