From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
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My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Every revival worthy of the name begins in the restoration of the Word of God to the pulpit, and its fearless proclamation… — Wilbur Moorehead Smith Copy Share Image
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
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The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
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