Rene Descartes Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park -
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
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 -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
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 -
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell -
Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour -
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 -
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson -
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
Patrick deWitt
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin -
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Chris Prentiss -
Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
Rene Descartes