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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.


Mamata Banerjee
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
Kid Rock
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.


Eddie Trunk
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When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.


Stephen Baldwin
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.
Willa Ford
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Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.


Ken Livingstone
I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
Virat Kohli
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Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.


Paul O'Grady
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Lydon
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I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.


Ken Livingstone
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The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
Simon Schama
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.


Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I took a test once; they said I was a genius.


Alex Honnold
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