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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.

Really scar Books
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Books I Tried Slippery Tell
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books Grow Never Newest
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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Audience Cookbooks Launch Lot
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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Engage yourself in things that will profit you. Read books that will empower you. Watch and listen to materials that will inspire you and not things that will break your confidence.

Profit you Yourself Read book Inspire you
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human nature Weak
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Books Windows Soul
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
Books Windows Soul Looks out
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Schoolmasters Everybody Employ Intelligent
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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Man's duty Have books Luxury Life
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

About Always Books Complain
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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.
Began Books Him Washington
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Dead Hope Sins Were scarlet
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone
Wisdom When Derived Books alone
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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'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 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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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Books are gardens of the knowledgeable.

Books Are gardens Knowledgeable
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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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Books may well be the only true magic.

Books May well True magic
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