Roger Waters Quotes
There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
Quotes to Explore
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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May books spread the world over!
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
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In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark, or Paul’s writings, or any of the early Christian texts that make up the New Testament.
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To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.
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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
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We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
