Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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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.
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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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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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The wise are above books.
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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.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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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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Mary had a little sheep, With the sheep she went to sleep. The sheep turned out to be a ram, And Mary had a little lamb.
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I count on the kindness of strangers.
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I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.
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What a blessing it is to love books.
