"The love I knew was from books.." — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"The love I knew was from books.."

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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28 Quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a…
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds.…
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely…
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities…
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not…
Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak…
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.
Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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