Hermann Hesse Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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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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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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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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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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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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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.
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Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
