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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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
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I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
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When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.
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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.
