Irving Stone Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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May books spread the world over!
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
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Mary had a little sheep, With the sheep she went to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, And Mary had a little lamb.
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
