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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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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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
