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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There's room for plenty of creativity here.
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Sad stories make good books.
The Kite Runner -
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
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Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from other's books.
Love's Labour's Lost, I, I -
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
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Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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