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«When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
amaze, authors, dust jacket, icon, icons, jacket, jackets, picture book, provoke, remote, worm
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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authors, been, enormous, extension, extensions, fully, owe, readers, realize, True Life, true to life
«The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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advance, authors, original
«Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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authors, controversial, welcome, welcomed, welcomes, welcoming
«I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off»
«Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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authors, gems, Good Work, Great Books, here and there, scattered, the country, thoroughly
«The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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authors, Gospels, ignorant, Jesus, mutilate, mutilated, teachings, unintelligible, unlettered
«The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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ambassadors, authors, churches, colleges, common people, executives, inventors, Legislatures, newspapers, parlors, The Ambassadors, The Genius, the inventor