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One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Breathless Compassion Exuberant Favorite Full Generosity Grass Innocence Joy Leaves Passages Poem Rich

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Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: About Behavior Good Good Behavior Just Tv

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If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: After Anything Anything Else Books Else Much Only Pretend Reading Reading Books Room Spend Time Understand Year You Your

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In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: After Bulls Career Guidelines Interrogation Notes Read Scholar Too

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Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Above Against Avenues Before Building Crashed Drowned Flooded Goldman Sachs Hurricane Isle Manhattan Odds Only Onto Rich Sandy Sparkling Streets Surge Tomorrow Well Were Wrote

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I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Actually Any Austen Been Decades Fortunate Having Jane Jane Austen Myself Never New Novels Read Several Sparing Thirty Thus Unhappiness Until

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'Use Me' is a wonderfully satisfying book.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Book Me Satisfying Use Wonderfully

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'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: About Austen Complicated Does Everything Favorite Heroine Intelligence Irresistible Itself Jane Jane Austen Novel Novels Period Who Wrong

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I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Call Children Readers Those Used

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A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Plenty Seventh Tenth Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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