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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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Gary Berntsen, head of the CIA in Afghanistan there, he was a field commander. And he has a book out called "Jawbreaker." And he says we missed an opportunity at Tora Bora to get him. We put resources elsewhere. That's been a critique of the administration. Did we miss opportunities?

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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

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You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

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