Ernie Harwell Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
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So it shall be written. So it shall be done.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
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[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
