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This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
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I am so excited to announce that I have written a book. I have actually written it myself with no ghost writer,… — Rob Beckett Copy Share Image
Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote… — Don Ameche Copy Share Image
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
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O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but… — Ben Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I write a team book, it's all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“And what did Maurice buy when he first got paid? A Russian-English dictionary! Maurice bought a novel and began to try to… — Deborah Hopkinson Copy Share Image
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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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