#books

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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I will try to write books until I drop dead. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

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There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life. ↗

— Frank Langella

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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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