Quote by null Download Open image ““The irrepressible Preface”” — null ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
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The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
“Instead of these mild, oblique approaches, we must learn, in such cases, to be irenically direct.” — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
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“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of this book,… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
“For me, the step from impotence to the power of the weak is more important than another transition that many of us attempt again… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,” — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Mr. Saffron wheeled around, seeking the source of the voice, but Mr. Pink turned slowly, almost as if he’d expected it. A shape formed… — null Copy Share Image
“After considering the matter carefully, Tip decided that the best place to locate Jack would be at the bend in the road, a little… — null Copy Share Image
“As it was yet too early in the day to expect the old woman to return home, Tip went down into the valley below… — null Copy Share Image
“2. "HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will… — null Copy Share Image
“Nar,” a gravely voice answered. “We was told exactly where the beacons were placed, wasn’t we? This section’s clean. Sentry’s all we have to… — null Copy Share Image
“That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening… — null Copy Share Image
“A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And much poison at the end for a pleasant death.” — null Copy Share Image
“Jack's all right, and works fine!" he said to himself, panting with the unusual exertion. But just then he discovered the man's left arm… — null Copy Share Image
“But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.” — null Copy Share Image
