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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Book

"When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race."

Men Book Hate
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Book

"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent."

Book Suffering Intelligent
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Book

"I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said."

Thinking Book Atheist
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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
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"I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me."

Book Coffee Tombstone
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round."

Book Reading Butterfly
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Nathanael West Novelist, Screenwriter
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"You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin."

Thinking Men Book
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright."

Book Blow Cocky
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Gary Vaynerchuk Entrepreneur, Author
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"I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business."

People Book Made
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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda."

Writing Book Age
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Neil Gaiman Author
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"My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book."

Book Kids Funeral
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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"

World Book Cheaper
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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity."

Book Running Summer
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Irwin Shaw Novelist, Playwright
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"There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough."

Book Long Memories
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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power."

Book Fall Errors
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