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book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book easy easy-to-get
Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healing good-friend
Charles Caleb Colton Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
book reading fire
Charles Dickens It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
literature weapons
Chinua Achebe My weapon is literature
literature easy teach
Chinua Achebe I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
literature places-to-go needs
Edward Hirsch There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.
literature occupation merit
David Hume Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.
literature very-happy walkers
Audre Lorde I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
literature universal-love kinky
Audre Lorde We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
literature disease molecules
Kurt Vonnegut And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
literature stories guilty
Bill O'Reilly Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
literature privilege reason
Carlos Fuentes Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
differentiation happens
Alan Watts We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
different film should
Alan Parker I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
different
Chris Burke I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.
different shows show-business
Eddie Murphy I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.
different persons
Agnes Varda I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
different invisible
Charles de Lint When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.
different working-it oversight
Charlie Munger Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours.
different creatures capable
Bill McKibben What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.
different projects different-music
Bill Wyman I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.