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.
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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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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.
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But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
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There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai.
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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.
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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.
