Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
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The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
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Part of why I wrote my book was so that we could focus on the structural and systemic reasons behind social misery.… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
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I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
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But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
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![“Now I do feel like I have something to say. The book [How to Be a Bawse] is a guide on how to not just survive life but to conquer it. And it's based on my life experiences, all the people I've met, all the things I've learned from those people, being in the weird situations that I get in.” quote by Lilly Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/lilly-singh-2866_book_now-i-do-feel-like-i-have-something-to-s_3016407.jpg)
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