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THE POLITICIAN If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish! CATHERINE Especially since you can't rob the people anyway. THE POLITICIAN Sure...How was that? CATHERINE What you rob, you spend. And what you spend goes back to the people. So where's the robbery? I read that in one of my father's books. THE POLITICIAN That book should be in every home! Preston Sturges
I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Wally Lamb
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. Dylan Thomas
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed. George Bernard Shaw
I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough. Moby
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010) Michael Kennedy
It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past. Alison Bechdel
Alice Munro quote: "She would live now, not read."
She would live now, not read. Alice Munro
Marquis de Sade quote: "I've been to Hell. You've only read about it."
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. Marquis de Sade
His shadow lay over the rocks as he bent, ending. Why not endless till the farthest star? Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds. Me sits there with his augur's rod of ash, in borrowed sandals, by day beside a livid sea, unbeheld, in violet nigh walking beneath a reign of uncouth stars. I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back. Endless, would it be mine, form of my form? Who watches me here? Who... James Joyce
Samuel Johnson quote: "Never trust a man who writes more than he reads."
Never trust a man who writes more than he reads. Samuel Johnson
Roberto Bolano quote: "Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me."
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. Roberto Bolano
If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with I Him. You cannot put Him off with speculations about your next door neighbours or memories of what you have read in books. What will all that chatter and hearsay count (will you even be able to remember it?) when the anaesthetic fog which we call ‘nature’ or ‘the real world’ fades away and the Presence in which you have always stood becomes palpable, immediate, and unavoidable? C. S. Lewis
People disagreeing everywhere you look, Makes you wanna stop and read a book. Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street. That was really shook. Bob Dylan
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming. Cheryl Strayed

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