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A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
Tristram Stuart
Food
People
Country
Restaurants
Feed
Like
Shelves
Than
America
American
Shop
American People
Much
Required
Twice
Actually
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
Alone
Writing
Word
Reading
Speed
Books
Out
About
Putting
Saddest
Involved
Frenzy
How
Shelves
Quickly
Getting
Moves
Ages
Publishing
Things
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
William Ernest Henley
Good
Men
Earned
Our
Immortality
Had
Part
Thus
Well
Make
Shelves
Doing
Been
Essayist
Done
Pity
Them
Poor
Us
Should
Figure
Who
Companion
Many
Things
Imaginable
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands.
Phil Elverum
Books
Those
Would
Seemed
Anguish
Nobody
Look
Understand
Understands
Shelves
Go
Get
Just
Them
Help
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