I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love… — David Small Copy Share Image
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No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
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I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
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The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
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Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
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