Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Patrick deWitt
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
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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.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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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.
T. E. Lawrence
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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.
Samantha Shannon
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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They're hard to come by, good producers.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
Saul Bellow
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Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.
Beth Gutcheon
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Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
Thomas A. Edison