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Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
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One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people… — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like,… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
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