Quotes 401 till 420 of 491.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
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This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
Critical Path (1981)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.Bedouin Song -
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
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