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'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

~Elena Roger

Topics: Because Book Did Gave Instead Me More Musicals Only Said Someone Theater Wanted You

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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Beginning Between Book Difference Eight Hundred Only Original Pages Result See Six Them Two Very Which You

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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

~Elie Wiesel

Topics: Book Home Jewish Recall Table Without

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There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Book Brain Calculus Chess Concept Human Human Society Intelligence Like More Opposed People People Say Popular Reside Say Skills Smarts Social Social Skills Society Succeed Takes Than

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I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Actually Also Book Had Life-Changing Magic Novel Really Self-Help Wish Written

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The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Anna Appealed Book Decide First Funny Go High High School Incredibly Literature Made Me Read Russian Sad School Simultaneously Thing Which

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I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Book Certain Find Girl Idiot Make Meaning Outside Plot Romance Struggle Think Way

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I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

~Elijah Wood

Topics: Book Deeper Does Hearts Hobbit Holds Lord Lord Of The Rings People Perhaps Place Rings Than Think I Think

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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Adult Age Book Come Coming Coming Of Age Consensus Crop Exceptions Few Industry Interested Novel Primarily Protagonist Publishing Questions Then Up Worldview Young Young Adult

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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Abstraction Adult After Book Calling Discarded Get Help Important Only Reader Right Should Useless Young Young Adult

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