#books

Well I've written four beauty books as well. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. ↗

— Jack Vance

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It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Actually, the books were never a planned career path. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. ↗

— Paula Danziger

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