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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 dark space
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond. Alberto Manguel
book ideas jail
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail Alfred Whitney Griswold
book alive classic
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. Alfred Kazin
book brave-new-world culture
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
book reading past
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...
two persecution clash
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems. John Stott
two trump remarkable
It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis. Ted Cruz
two editors kind
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. Theodore White
two mind different
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. Theodore Sturgeon
two hypnosis persuasion
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles
two pyramids shadow
Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick. Thales
two people discworld
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. Terry Pratchett
two problem handle
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope. Margaret Mitchell
feet home lose water
My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it. Bobby Patrick
feet people fans
We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. Jacoby Shaddix
feet five house slant
We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild. O. J. Simpson