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There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. Michael Lewis
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that. Ruth Rendell
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My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I don't want her to accidentally read something she's not supposed to. Jennifer Deer
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My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right. Jeffrey Zeldman
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My first time in England, in the '60s, the interiors were somehow familiar to me, probably because of the books I'd read and the images I'd seen. Christian Lacroix
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My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.
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None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing. Margot Kidder
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We have a lot of new coaches. We need to get familiar with every player.
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Some still have enough time to do so. David White
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Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.
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We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. Annie Dillard
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If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double. Robert Bork
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. Thomas Otway
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Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality. Thomas Moore
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert Kennedy
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick