L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
Quotes to Explore
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
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When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.
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European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.
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To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
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Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
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Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
