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en If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis. We're going to have to get rid of ... ... A lot of classic children's literature is not going to be allowed to survive.

en I don't think the magic will wear off. This is a real classic that has all the ingredients as a C.S. Lewis or Roald Dahl that sells as many books as they did 50 years ago,

en It's a progressive education school. We don't use textbooks we use literature. We encourage children to engage in reading from an early age. The way we approach that is to let the children pick out their own (books). A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. It's a progressive education school. We don't use textbooks we use literature. We encourage children to engage in reading from an early age. The way we approach that is to let the children pick out their own (books).

en We got real bright, colorful books that were some of the kids' favorites. Many of these kids don't have any books (of their own) at home. The earlier we can expose them to literature, the better. Getting them exposed to literature at an early age is probably the best thing we can do and what better way than to put one in their hands.

en [The concept is simple: Boot up your computer and design whatever object you can imagine, press a button to send the CAD file to Lewis' headquarters in New Jersey, and two or three weeks later he'll FedEx you the physical object. Lewis launched eMachineShop a year and a half ago, and customers are using his service to create engine-block parts for hot rods, gears for home-brew robots, telescope mounts - even special soles for tap dance shoes.] Designing stuff used to be just for experts, ... We're bringing it to the masses.

en A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

en When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

en The situation, I guess, is different than most of them. There are, I'm sure, other books with explicit material in them, but this is particularly egregious, because a book that's about comics ... and where children could look at them. There are other books that have text that's inappropriate for children, but because it's pictures, it's much more likely that children would be exposed to them.

en For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
  Arthur Rimbaud

en It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

en Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

en I think that everybody would gain a sense that literature is important, it's one of the reasons why we're alive. There's eating, sleeping, survival stuff, but I think that you really can't survive without literature, without poetry. It's a joy of life, which is funny to say when your curriculum includes Hemingway. It makes you go out in the world in a different way and look for beauty, a different way of expressing yourself.

en It is a way to introduce kids to a wonderful children's classic. We hope to make the day enjoyable, yet we also hope that those who attend may end up wanting to read 'Alice in Wonderland' some time or at least want to see the Disney musical. It is a fun way to get them familiar with a great piece of literature.

en Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

en Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
  Barbara W. Tuchman


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