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Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
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I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
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before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
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The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
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'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and… — Elena Roger Copy Share Image