"Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

Jennifer O'Neill, American Actress

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"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."

Elisabeth Rohm, American Actress

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"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go."

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

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"My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

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"I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young."

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"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."