#boo

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ↗

— Robert Frost

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In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. ↗

— Esther Forbes

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

— Anatole France

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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

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I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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