For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Gene Fowler
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert-and then make it brief.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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