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The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The articles of the anonymous author presented at an appropriate stage is a commendable act. But provide your name in the articles… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter,… — Antonio Muxf1oz Molina Copy Share Image
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody … In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
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“I’m rather an admirer of the book,” Robert said and took a sip from his glass. “Damien, when you marry, you might… — Emma Wildes Copy Share Image
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
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Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“You get my idea. Nothing of "artistic" literature about it, just straight medicine, a universal panacea, a fetish in a sense: if… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Mum and dad would drive me to the ACT Academy of Sport gym at 5 A.M., sit in the car and read… — Caroline Buchanan Copy Share Image
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“[245] "In large and populous cities," says the author of the Fable of the Bees, i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws.… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
![“The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't. I wrote about that in my book.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ba/hillary-clinton-51_book_the-facts-are-i-did-say-i-hoped-it-trans_1380757.jpg)
![“[245] "In large and populous cities," says the author of the Fable of the Bees, i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above their rank, and, consequently, have the pleasure of being esteemed by a vast majority, not as what they are, but what they appear to be.” quote by Montesquieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f44/montesquieu-19593_books_245-in-large-and-populous-cities-says-th_3159394.jpg)
![“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.” quote by Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/lev-grossman-747_able_young-minds-young-brains-need-stories-an_716251.jpg)
