"The thing I like most about books is……" — Chris Ware
"The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness."
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37 Quotes by Chris Ware
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My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified…
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As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely…
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There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not…
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One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism.…
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Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
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Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
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It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather…
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I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real…
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Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I…
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I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at…
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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if…
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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an…
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America…
— Lester Bangs
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
— Lester Bangs
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with…
— George Matthew Adams
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
— Dave Barry
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream…
— Joe Barton
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
— Theodore Bikel
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
— Bono
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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