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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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Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used…
— Margaret Atwood
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding…
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We invent what we love and what we fear.
— John Irving
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There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
— Unknown Author
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Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that…
— Helen Zille
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It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
— Frank Kermode
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Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real…
— Saul Bellow
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It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent…
— James M. Kouzes
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
— Jeff Bezos
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