The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.


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NORMAN REEDUS
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
NORMAN DAVIES
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I lik...
NORMAN REEDUS
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ...
NORMAN BORLAUG
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
NORMAN ANGELL
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except b...
NORMAN ANGELL
The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only ...
NORMAN ANGELL
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak...
NORMAN ANGELL
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL
In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime wa...
NORMAN WISDOM
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif...
NORMAN DAVIES
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
NORMAN MAILER
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
NORMAN DAVIES
I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
NORMAN DAVIES
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
NORMAN TEBBIT
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creati...
NORMAN MAILER
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
NORMAN MAILER
I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
NORMAN DAVIES
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always livi...
NORMAN MAILER
Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal...
NORMAN MAILER
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ...
GREG NORMAN
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
NORMAN MAILER
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they wil...
NORMAN THOMAS
The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS