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“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.”
“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.”
“Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious ...”
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“They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?”
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts to the silence of the storm of intoxication. Holding on to each other...”
“If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same felines fangs are filed down to ...”
“When I was your age, television was called books.”
“As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.”
“It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.”
“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.”
“She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion...”
“A book a day keeps the mind happy and gay!”
“How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken ...”
“No, Ben. What Im asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Bens the driver, right?”
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its la...”
“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as welland more, because their stories havent yet been completely told.”
“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fools mind judges a book by its title.”
