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Tana French has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women…
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I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How…
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong.…
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Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know…
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and…
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to…
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You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in…
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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how…
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right…
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and…
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to…
— Bernard Baruch
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
— Gerald Durrell
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done…
— C.S. Lewis
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
— Augusten Burroughs
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As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The…
— C.S. Lewis
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to…
— Marilynne Robinson
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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.
— Anne Fadiman
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