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Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.


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MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN