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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
— Wilfred Trotter
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A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
— J C Ryle
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For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's…
— Larry Lucchino
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When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this…
— Nancy Astor
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Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.
— Paulo Coelho
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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:…
— Stephen Fry
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside…
— Eric Ambler
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Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon,…
— Shinya Yamanaka
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Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak…
— Jennifer Worth
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