You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.


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RON PAUL
What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL
Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE
A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON
Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING
Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD
Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD
When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON
Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM
Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX
Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX
A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX
Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX