Ernest K. Gann Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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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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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
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I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
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From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
