#1 Phantom

WISDOM FROM BOOKS & COMICS

Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

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Blondie

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Stamp of a Writer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

At home, to begin with, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among external sensations the only one possible for me was reading. Reading was, of course, a great help—it stirred, delighted, and tormented me. But at times it bored me terribly. I still wanted to move about, and so I'd suddenly sink into some murky, subterranean, vile debauch—not a great, but a measly little debauch. 

— From Notes from the Underground

Writer at Work: Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie introduced her famous detective, Hercule Poirot, in her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920.