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I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed… — Josephine Humphreys
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. — Arthur Levitt Jr
NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a… — Dan Smoot
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with… — Eubie Blake
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being… — Eubie Blake
Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. — Sheldon Vanauken
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have… — James H. Fowler
I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I… — Amanda Hocking
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go to the events… — James Altucher
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because… — Unknown Author
It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols… — Octavius Winslow
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of… — Unknown Author
Layne and Paul Cutright are like lasers in the way they penetrate to the core issues of relationships in their easy to read book, Straight… — Tolly Burkan
A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can… — Monty Roberts
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite… — David Liss
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer… — Julius Lester
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen… — Dana Spiotta
I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either — Tom Holt
I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If… — Sam Keen
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Unknown Author
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a… — Wim Crouwel
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.… a tour de… — Noah Richler
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,… — Unknown Author
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — Unknown Author

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