Quotes about book
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One smile relieves a heart that grievesthough deadly sad it be,and one hard look Can close the book that lovers love to see. Robert Graves
book consequences interested
One of the things that's always interested me, from the first book on, is unintended consequences, Joseph Kanon
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One of the themes is how is it we cope with trials and tribulations? How do we endure struggles and come out differently? ... The book has been criticized for being messy, and it is messy in many ways, with loose ends and stories that don't tie up neatly. But why do we need to impose expectations?
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One book that I read called Comedy Writing Secrets by Helitzer made a great point. He said that most of being funny is the CHARACTER and not the jokes.
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Obviously, we've only seen parts of things. And the book itself doesn't come out until the end of the month, but we'll review everything that there is to look at. Bud Selig
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Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this. Susan Sontag
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None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing. Margot Kidder
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Nonfiction takes no liberty with the facts. The trouble with book publishers is that they don't have the staff or they don't want to have the staff to ensure the veracity of a writer. ... My wife is going to hate me for this, but that is what I believe. Gay Talese
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One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s William Hazlitt
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My first day here, just like my first day at Alabama, I went and got the record books and looked it all up. It was like, 'OK, how hard is it going to be for me to get this thing?' I started setting goals to get them fast. Shaun Alexander
book two environmental
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. Francis Bacon
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. Libba Bray
books knew written
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it. Kathryn Harrison
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it. Kacey Musgraves
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. Karen Thompson Walker
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. Joy Fielding
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My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar. Julia Glass
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My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.
book men preparation
The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills. Jane Addams
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I should infinitely prefer a book... Jane Austen
book men feelings
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
book home fate
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
book reflection stories
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
book reading talking
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
book prove
...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
book mean thinking
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
book reading should
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
book tire
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
book long done
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
book men occupation
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .