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Open Book Quotes

something else raised him above the others as well: he had an open book on his table. No one had ever opened a book in that restaurant before. Milan Kundera
And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody. Djuna Barnes
I awaited Signor Polizzi's reply with ill-contained impatience. I could not even remain quiet; I would make sudden nervous gestures - open books and violent close them again. One day I happened to upset a book with my elbow - a volume of Morri. Hamilcar, who was washing himself, suddenly stopped, and looked angrily at me, with his paw over his ear. Was this the tumultuous existence he must expect under my roof? Had there not been a tacit understanding between us that we should live a peaceful... Anatole France
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears. Barbara Kingsolver
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did. Bret Easton Ellis
Paul McCartney quote: "When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You..."
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. Paul McCartney
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup. On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed. My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less. It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless. William Butler Yeats
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure. Alexander McQueen
Lee Greenwood quote: "I'm pretty much an open book."
I'm pretty much an open book. Lee Greenwood
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. Mahatma Gandhi
Benny Hinn quote: "I'm an open book."
I'm an open book. Benny Hinn
Emily VanCamp quote: "I'm a pretty open book."
I'm a pretty open book. Emily VanCamp
Rita Coolidge quote: "You know, I'm pretty much an open book."
You know, I'm pretty much an open book. Rita Coolidge
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time. Lalla Ward
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Ralph Thomas Walker

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