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Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

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Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Writing a book is an adventure.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.

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If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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