Beryl Markham Quotes
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
Yahya Jammeh -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
Barton Gellman -
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
Daniel Espinosa -
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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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 -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
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 -
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
Sadie Jones -
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
Patricia Cornwell -
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman -
I love Africa.
Naomie Harris -
Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
Laird Barron
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
Wilbur Smith -
Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.
Colin Jost -
I'm not going to doubt my life.
Yoko Ono -
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord -
There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
Beryl Markham