"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."

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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

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"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

Christian Slater, American Actor

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"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Books, Quest, Questions, Tomorrow

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

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"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."