Quotes 161 till 180 of 489.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.
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Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
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Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
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I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
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I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
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I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
De correcties (2010)
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