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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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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.
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve. John Milton
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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
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I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am. Nita Ambani
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My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals. Nina Hagen
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...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else. Mitch Albom
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me. Mike Tyson
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Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away. John Wilkins
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I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like. Kenny G