#genera

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. ↗

— James Rollins

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

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Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. ↗

— John Moody

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No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. ↗

— Frank Norris

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I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. ↗

— Satchel Paige

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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. ↗

— Alexander Payne

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Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ↗

— George Peabody

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