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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…
— Francis Bacon
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
— Knute Rockne
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In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
— Zubin Mehta
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…
— John F. Kennedy
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with…
— Howard Nemerov
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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate…
— Paul Lynde
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
— Aldous Huxley
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You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be…
— Janette Rallison
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
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