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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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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that…
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener,…
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I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest…
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
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Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He…
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Whealth, The Fusion of Health and Wealth with Wisdom and Opportunity ~ Big Al Connolly
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You are WHO you Meet, WHAT you read and HOW you think ~ Big Al Connolly
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Life is like shopping in the supermarket.... best done with a list ~ Big Al Connolly
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The More I Live It, The More I Learn It ~ Big Al Connolly
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Waste no more time, as time is not a commodity you can Buy, Time equals money and is very expensive when spent…
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Is it Practice Makes Perfect or Perfect Practice makes Perfect? ~ Big Al Connolly
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