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There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
Mary Oliver
Life
Good
Day
You
Book
Few
Dig
Okay
Easy
Beach
Outside
Over
Hours
Read
Got
Go
Were
Years
Times
Working
Good Book
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine
You
Book
Type
Books
Various
Develop
Read
Styles
Authors
Just
Different
Different Styles
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
Great
Book
Better
Old
Smell
Ancient
New
Like
New Book
Smells
Got
Egypt
Even
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
Robert M. Gates
Crazy
Book
Smoking
Reading
Wild
Weekend
Involves
Sitting
Front
Porch
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
Great
Morning
Age
Youth
Book
Maturity
Light
Old
Seen
Building
Old Age
Great Book
Once
Once More
Moonlight
Fine
More
Read
Noon
Truly
Again
Should
I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.
Robin S. Sharma
You
Book
Phone
Big
Airplane
Total
Disturb
Adore
Week
Put
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Get
Done
Big Things
Door
Place
Room
Fantastic
Rooms
Then
Found
Things
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.
Sonu Nigam
Art
Myself
Me
Prayer
Learning
Book
Reading
Musical
Musical Instrument
Martial
Something
Something New
New
Instrument
Continuous
Process
Teach
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
You
Book
Will
Difficult
Too
Write
Written
Children
Wants
Then
Grown-Ups
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce
Book
Too
Covers
Apart
Far
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
Life
Book
Big
Our
Plot
Cosmic
Give
Only
Individual
Like
Person
Meaning
Novel
Each
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
August Wilson
History
You
Book
Our
About
Blacks
Shame
Know
How
Stigma
America
Forget
Blues
Want
Who
Slavery
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin
Book
He
Wiser
Himself
Than
One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
Billy Crystal
Life
Love
You
Waiting
Book
Down
Those
One-Night
Know
Wrote
Became
Love You
Lovely
Little
Granddaughter
Really
Things
Night
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.
David Icke
Winter
Bible
Book
Three
Christian
Later
Sun
Ancient
Would
Would-Be
Days
Know
End
Died
December
Literal
Then
Cycle
Reborn
Believed
Actually
Start
Jesus
Symbol
Symbolic
Christians
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
Deb Caletti
Good
You
Book
Walk
Ocean
Cold
Waves
Sun
Out
Drink
Towel
Stick
Bliss
Behind
Sand
Good Book
Swim
Chance
Dragging
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Good
Book
Damn
Other
Enough
Good Parts
Wreck
Something
Only
Writer
Parts
Overhear
His
May
Whole
Lucky
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx
Book
Laughter
Reading
Down
Someday
Picked
Until
Up
Intend
Laid
Your
Moment
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville
Great
You
Book
Though
Must
Tried
Volume
Written
Enduring
Theme
Flea
Mighty
Produce
Choose
Many
Ever
Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.
Jean Harlow
Christmas
Me
Book
Books
Give
Give Me
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.
John Ralston Saul
Freedom
Book
People
Censorship
Become
Whatever
Fighting
Believe
Several
Spent
Net
Freedom Of Expression
Site
Form
Burning
Against
Centuries
Certain
Who
Expression
Technological
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck
Business
Book
Writing
Book Writing
Solid
Seem
Horse
Horse Racing
Like
Makes
Stable
Racing
Profession
'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.
Libba Bray
Book
Somebody
Teenager
Adolescence
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Yes
Gets
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Michael Morpurgo
Life
Book
Writing
Money
Worry
About
Lead
Making
Making Money
Getting
Just
Famous
Interesting
Interesting Life
For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
Patti Smith
Life
Best
Great
You
Book
Sky
Coffee
Great Book
Everything
Out
Bad
Detective
Unbelievably
Someone
Had
Puts
Exciting
Exciting Things
New
Cup
Golden
Movie
Whether
Really
Your
Ever
Million
Things
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
Heart
Book
Past
Only
Like
Him
Read
Known
Leaves
His
Friends
Title
Each
Shut
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Book
Classic
Written
Again
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