Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out – Samuel Johnson

Monday, November 17, 2008 8:00 AM
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Maxine Perkins and for the next six weeks, I will be either your best friend or your worst enemy.
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Jeff Bezos Hawks the Kindle

It’s still not clear whether electronic books are the wave of the future or a consumer products cul-de-sac. Technology continues to improve, and there are certainly lots of good reasons for a device like Amazon’s Kindle to be the leading edge of a major wave of adoption. A few of the […]

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The eminently quotable Samuel Johnson had a very pragmatic view about writing, and was quoted by Boswell as having said:
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
Personally, I think Johnson is pretty close to the mark on this one, but I will add one caveat. Ask any writer about their first book, […]

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