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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Book

"Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)"

Book Sexy Appreciation
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Eddie Campbell Comic Book Artist
Book

"I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86."

Thinking Book Aggravation
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Book

"As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer."

Book Reading Wish
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Book

"If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way."

Book Law Reading
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed."

Book Age Evil
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own."

Book Reading
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books."

Book College Academic
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Book

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Writing Book Eight
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Book

"I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."

Believe Book Yesterday
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever."

Book Nice Weekend
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Elizabeth Moon Science Fiction Author
Book

"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."

People Book Character
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
Book

"Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions."

Book Night Sleep
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
Book

"What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?"

Writing Book Fifty
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Emily Barton Author
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"One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means."

Mean Book Past
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