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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#born #face #feel #how #into

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#day #find #gone #had #half

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#conceived #executed #extent #fact #in fact

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#ethic #i #i do #kind #know

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #either #i #jokes #laugh

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane. ↗

— John Irving

#love #love

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#always #before #do you know #doing #done