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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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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
— Katharine Whitehorn
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When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.…
— Danny Masterson
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Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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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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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like…
— Thelma Ritter
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis…
— Sally Phillips
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I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes,…
— Heidi Klum
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write…
— Garrison Keillor
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I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.
— Bridget Moynahan
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So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got…
— John Mahoney
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Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
— John le Carre
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