Al-Mutanabbi Quotes
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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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Patrick Carman
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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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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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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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.
Talulah Riley
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell
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Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
Dan Brown
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Patricia Cornwell
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
Orson Scott Card
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Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Philip James Bailey
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Camille Pissarro
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I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
Terence McKenna
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug
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A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
Al-Mutanabbi