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book books last
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. Ian Frazier
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. Gail Carriger
books encourage hear intend meant
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search. Zadie Smith
books love
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. William Osler
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy. Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one. Vincent Bugliosi
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I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. Chuck Palahniuk
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My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
sadness winter misery
It's always winter but it's never Christmas. C. S. Lewis
sadness letters triumph
There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all. Cecelia Ahern
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What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours? William Shakespeare
sadness misery melancholy
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. Maurice Maeterlinck
sadness yield suffering
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness. Barry McGuigan
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I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too. Azzedine Alaia
sadness hands soul
Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival. B. B. King
sadness want kind
There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.
thinking people suffering
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Bertrand Russell
thinking power technique
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
thinking giving important
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.
thinking mathematical absolutes
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
thinking understanding firsts
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
thinking punishment belief
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
thinking differences laughing
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Robert Fulghum
thinking knows ifs
You won't learn if you think you already know everything. Robert Kiyosaki
thinking use emotion
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions