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I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
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This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas,… — Anne Wilkes Tucker Copy Share Image
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I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or… — William Klein Copy Share Image
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It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
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I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
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You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
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Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
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![“[T]he self “is not an unmitigated blessing,”6 writes Duke University psychologist Mark Leary in his aptly titled book, The Curse of the Self. “It is single-handedly responsible for many, if not most of the problems that human beings face as individuals and as a species . . . [and] conjures up a…” quote by Steven Kotler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/steven-kotler-7422_altered-states_t-he-self-is-not-an-unmitigated-blessing_2045970.jpg)
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