Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ernest Dimnet
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
Paige VanZant
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
R. A. Salvatore
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The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.
Alexandra Fuller
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
Abraham Lincoln
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ernest Dimnet