The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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Entertaining and easy to use The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations brings together more than 18 000 fresh and intriguing remarks witticisms judgments and observations on 1 500 alphabetically arranged subjects. More than 11 000 of these quotations have never before appeared in a quotation book. Full of the worlds most apt sentences and less familiar quotations from Shakespeare to Malcolm X from Lenin to Salman Rushdie from Emily Dickinson to Camille Paglia here is the best new large quotation book in decadesand the liveliest one available. These funny profound touching provocative and memorable quotations chosen not for their familiarity but for their quality and their relevance cover subjects from adolescence and adoption to yuppies and zoos. Each quotation has a detailed accurate citation. Read: Henry Kissinger and Desmond Tutu on leadership; John F. Kennedy and Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the press; Tallulah Bankhead and Andrea Dworkin on sex; Marlon Brando and Paul Gauguin on obesity; Emerson Wilde and Twain on just about anything.