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The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.


Tom Hodgkinson

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TOM STOPPARD The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
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TOM ODELL After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
TOM STOPPARD In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student pro...
TOM STOPPARD In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of N...
TOM FELTON Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a membe...
TOM SHALES The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewardi...
TOM LEHMAN Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
TOM STOPPARD It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
TOM CRUISE I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my al...
TOM CRUISE I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
TOM CRUISE I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I rea...
TOM CRUISE Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journe...
TOM CRUISE Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even...
TOM CRUISE I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
TOM CRUISE I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
TOM CRUISE I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
TOM CRUISE I'm a romantic.
TOM CRUISE