Quotes with book-friends

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  • E. M. Forster One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jonathan Swift One enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
    Source: Journal to Stella (30 June 1711)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
    B. Joweit
     
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  • Ben Zobrist One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ann Landers One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Bob Mayer One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
    Source: On War (1832) Ch. 23
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Willa Cather Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
    Source: Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • William Hazlitt Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Benjamin Watson Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Jacques Delille Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
    Jacques Delille
    French author (1738 - 1813)
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  • Bridget Moynahan Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you have good support with your family and friends and nannies.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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