#boo

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#back #book #channel #every #front

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.' ↗

— Jamie Dimon

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

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Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. ↗

— Austin Dobson

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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

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