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Life Without Literature Is A Life Reduced To Penury. It Expands You In Every Way. It Illuminates What You’re Doing. It Shows You Possibilities You Haven’t Thought Of. It Enables You To Live The Lives Of Other People Than Yourself. It Broadens You, It Makes You More Human. It Makes Life Enjoyable.

I Think Most Of The Things I Published Have Been Published Out Of Desperation, Not Because They Were Perfected.

We Worked On Solving The Problem Of Voice Communications In A Noisy Military Environment. We Established Military Codes That Are Highly Audible And Invented Selection Tests For Personnel Who Had A Superior Ability To Recognize Sound In A Noisy Background.

We Are Human, And Nothing Is More Interesting To Us Than Humanity. The Appeal Of Literature Is That It Is So Thoroughly A Human Thing — By, For And About Human Beings. If You Lose That Focus, You Obviate The Source Of The Power And Permanence Of Literature.

It's Amazing How, Age After Age, In Country After Country, And In All Languages, Shakespeare Emerges As Incomparable.