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President Benson's mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Milan Kundera, the Czech-born writer, has a pithy quote about this in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “Human life occurs… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
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Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
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I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.' I'm only talking to myself. I'd… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
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Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini,… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image