"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
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"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."
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"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."
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"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life."
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"He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."
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"For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita.""
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"To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most."
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"There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time."
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"You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self."
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"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books."
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"What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal."
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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
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"Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value."
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"Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'"
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"We live for books."
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"You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself."
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"Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it."
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"Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it."
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"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."
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"God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead."
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