In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
タグ: find, something, nobody, future
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
タグ: go, home, you, life
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
タグ: go, home, you, life
I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.
タグ: better, angry, opportunity, time
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
タグ: things, like, farmers, riding
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