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Books Quotes
"I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
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"No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into."
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"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy."
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"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
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"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
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"It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."
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"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves."
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"Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant."
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"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
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"Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing.."
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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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"Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world."
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"I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them."
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"Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do."
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
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