Quotes with book-collector

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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Delinsky In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
    Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Bee Wilson In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Donna Tartt It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Salman Rushdie It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Dame Rose Macaulay It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
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  • Bille August It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • Bret Easton Ellis It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Kathleen Norias Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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  • Mark Twain Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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