Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!
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Related None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME. ALAN MOORE In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This ... NICK HORNBY Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.&... PAUL DI FILIPPO There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books... BRIAN WHITE Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie w... SAM WELLER When you add it all up, I've committed about 1.8 years of my life to reading books for the series. I... BRIAN LAMB For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe ... GEORGE NELSON You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your cons... TARRYN FISHER Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB When you buy a book, you have it forever. With these electronic books, you often are prevented from ... GREGORY NEWBY Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Each of those stories will be original, ... It's a good outlet for ideas I don't use in the books. KATHY REICHS Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o... ANATOLE FRANCE I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. JANE HADDAM Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of act... MILO YIANNOPOULOS It's been years since that kind of new money for Puget Sound has been on the books. This is turning ... BRAD ACK It concerns me. It concerns a lot of people, especially those who have been here for years and years... ADEEL IQBAL It was filled with books. That was the first thing I noticed when I went in—how many books there w... PAUL AUSTER Through books we can time travel, play make-believe and even create our own intangible art using the... THE MODERN BOWERBIRD: TALES OF A BOOKSHELF Books were king, but now movies are king and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a... ETHAN CANIN But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte... FRANZ KAFKA My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought ... DAVID A. ADLER How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? J.K. ROWLING Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury T.K. THORNE My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being de... SEAN CONNERY It's kinda funny, because people come up to me and say 'Tom Hanks stole your idea,' ... But the movi... NAN MCCARTHY The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and... GENE NELSON Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree
with us. FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS We need all those wonderful books people have on their bookshelves and are willing to part with. ESTHER BUCK Three years felt like six around here. I've set up a blueprint, and gotten Freddie Mac back to regul... MARTIN BAUMANN When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information a... HILLARY CLINTON Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funnies... ROBERT LOOMIS It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-en... RENE DESCARTES I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in... JOHN HENRY MACKAY A book can become your best companion in times of crisis. Not only do you learn in the journey ... LIZ HAY For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. VIRGINIA WOOLF Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that ... DOUG BRINKLEY The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it... FRANCIS COLLINS The top three scores of your regular season are averaged. But no more then one of those top scores c... HARRY MULLINS The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the pri... MARTINA TUTKOVá He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with ... LAUREN DESTEFANO Ray finished it off with those free throws like I knew he would. I'm just glad I could help the team... JOE KRABBENHOFT A lot of people come out with their regular Wham-O. GRAYSON ROBBINS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON We've been good friends for a long time. I've been here for three years now, so those seniors were t... BRIAN COURTMANCHE Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live ot... ALAN CHEUSE I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir... PIERRE BAYARD It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, t... TERRY PRATCHETT It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. LEO MCKERN Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please... RENE DESCARTES My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ... ANNE FADIMAN When I talked with the state, they said they had most of those records on microfiche. But they didn'... ELGIN BAYLESS There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Ada... WEN JIABAO And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE We were slammed when we went to do pick-ups. It took two days (as opposed to one in previous years),... TOM SCHMIDT It fits in with the values of his core constituency. It offers an opportunity for those people who h... LARRY GERSTON I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books. JASON MOMOA Our economy now is based on tourism and people who come here with other jobs because of the quality ... BILL HEDDEN I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr... ALAN FURST When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up... MOLLY IVINS Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o... NICHOLAS SPARKS That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. RAY BRADBURY The newest books are those that never grow old. HOLBROOK JACKSON The newest books are those that never grow old. LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Growing up in the digital age, I'm expected to embrace all forms of modern technology with blissful ... REBECCA MCNUTT You'll never get anywhere with all those damned little short sentences. GREGORY CLARK We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren&... P. C. CAST has enough government on the books. I agree with Mr. Stracener that we don't need to broaden the sco... BRAD MOORE I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse,... JUNOT DíAZ My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger a... NANCY GARDEN The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ... LEO TOLSTOY She is here every Saturday, helping with services for over 20 years. She passes out prayer books, he... ALAN SHERMAN I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an... VIGGO MORTENSEN Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy t... ALEXIA CASALE Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with ea... JOHN MACKEY People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. P... RICHELLE MEAD INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT FORMAL EDUCATION ARE THOSE WITH LOT OF COMMON SENSE AND LOGIC... DR.PRASAD RAJHANS Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some... MARTIN SHEEN One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. EMMA DONOGHUE What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t... GALE SAYERS Those three have been playing for three years together. They know each other well and they're all st... DAVE BOSMAN Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10... RODDY DOYLE When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professiona... JONATHAN MABERRY Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your under... LORNA SAGE As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very ... COURTNEY LEWIS I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a c... JOHN NAISBITT I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway... MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN
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RAY BRADBURY Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ... RAY BRADBURY Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. RAY BRADBURY Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away." "But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. RAY BRADBURY I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down... RAY BRADBURY The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha... RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ... RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the... RAY BRADBURY There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ... RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà... RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr... RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ... RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i... RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I... RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav... RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ... RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor... RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,... RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v... RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi... RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go... RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on... RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious... RAY BRADBURY