Rand Paul Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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Ever read any Friedrich Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.
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Read about the history of magic.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.
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No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
