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book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
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
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book writing men
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. Andrea Dworkin
book recipes release
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
book thinking views
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
book pages who-we-are
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged Alberto Manguel
book hands fire
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing best-person persons
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal. E. L. James
writing korea achievement
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them. Douglas MacArthur
writing kissing letters
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. Donna Leon
writing thinking demand
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
writing editors journalist
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. Donald Davis
writing chess pages
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. Donald E. Westlake
passion giving world
I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back. Demi Lovato
passion human-nature reason
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. Aristotle
passion different projects
The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself. Angie Martinez
passion skills experience
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin
passion people trying
I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do. Quentin Tarantino
passion rage effects
When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion. Plutarch
passion character power
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
passion vanity government
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule. Polybius
passion expression rocks
Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. Pope Benedict XVI