Gerald Kersh Quotes
But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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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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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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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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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
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I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
