Quotes 261 till 280 of 443.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
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Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
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November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
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O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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One should never underestimate the power of books.
The Brooklyn Follies (2008) 139 -
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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