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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Lord Acton

Best, Others, Content

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
Paul Theroux

Etiquette, Australian, Slim

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
Neil Gaiman

Writing, Loved, Rules

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
Neil Gaiman

Different, Trying, Create

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Neil Gaiman

Trust, Learning, Ways

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Legal, Fight

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
Neil Gaiman

Family, Find, Before

I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
Kesha

Love, Time, Fear

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Monica Lewinsky

History, Lied, Hasn

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly

Learn, Worth, Ourselves

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Father, Learn, Once

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer

Writing, Lie, Find

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan Sontag

Today, End, Said

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang

Women, Wedding, Creativity

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
Patti Smith

Good, Wanted, Town

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser

Teacher, School, Help

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Ben Stein

Great, Makes, Clear

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.
George Whitefield

Life, God, Find

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz

Life, Evil, Real

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Salman Rushdie

Easy, Offended, Shut

Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V. S. Naipaul

Big, Making, Enterprise

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
V. S. Naipaul

Writing, Dirty, Grief

The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan Perlis

Best, Alice, Wonderland

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice

Challenge, Become, Write

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Time, God

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Carson McCullers

Nothing, Human, Old

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
Max Lucado

God, Help, Person

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt

Love, Today, Lost

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
Kid Rock

Down, Put, Read

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
Neale Donald Walsch

Bible, Religions, Sacred

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