#book

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. ↗

— Jim Bishop

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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

#elevated #fond #lofty #man #opinions

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. ↗

— Lynda Barry

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#book #each #four #individual #long

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#counters #literature #money #only #science

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#enough #everybody #exactly #good #i

Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#calming-the-mind #food-for-thought #self-help-book #food