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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Bad Book Cannot Compared
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.
Book Every Fan His
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Actor Allowed Area Artwork
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I will write another book if I feel like it.
Another Book Feel I Feel
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Books Earn Horse How
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I read more history books than anything else.
Anything Anything Else Books Else
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I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

Around Been Book Bunch
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

Books Chapter Computer Describing
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I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
Book Depressing Read Want
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Book Criticized Old Security
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Eye Of Notebook Poet
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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Learn Never Read Smart
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

About Active Books Chance
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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I believe that we must start giving the prominence that girls truly deserve, because, one day they will be mothers and they will be the education book for their children.

I believe Prominence Girls Truly deserve
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We should write our history books to prove that we did have a past and that it was just as worth writing and learning about as any others. We must do this for the simple reason that a nation and a people without a past is a people without a soul.

Write History book Nation Past
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One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Prescribe books To people One knows Good deal
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Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
Books Keys Wisdom's treasure
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Book To read Been written You must
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

I have Ever loved Cool baptisms Silent water
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them

Wrong book The fear
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Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

Go back Using facebook Originally for
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

What makes Book Good Reading it
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
One kind Good book Leave you Asking
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Sad books Best console Lonely service Love
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food.

Best efforts Critics Hope Authors
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it

Books Pasing time Other worlds Wanting time
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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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You don't put your life into books. You find it there.

Don't put Your life Into books
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

People Interested Books Authors
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Programming Skill Best acquired Practice
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view

School One point View Teacher has
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in book

Man's Genuis Knowledge Books
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Books are gardens of the knowledgeable.

Books Are gardens Knowledgeable
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You’re not Nigerian if they’ve never called a family meeting because of a Facebook post

Nigerian Never Family meeting Facebook post
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Read fiction Visualizing Every scene The result
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I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Bad person Write Good book Us better
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All these books are published in Heaven.

All Books Published Heaven
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Growing up Starting More books Geared towards
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What sense Superiority Escape reading Some book
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Books may well be the only true magic.

Books May well True magic
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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Books Challenging Inspirational
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