#books

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

#either #lives #need #only #open

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. ↗

— Bill Gates

#books #i #lot #nice #obscure

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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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

#attention #books #change #deal #great

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

— Cornelia Funke

#dead #drop #i #try #until

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work. ↗

— John Galliano

#because #books #demands #doing #dot

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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