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There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Always Books Children Code Giant Great Happen Knows Like Midnight Nobody People People Say Reading Say Well Why Written

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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

~Dennis Lehane

Topics: Bad Bad Day Books Catch Day Good Good Day Half Line Me Never Think Too Written I Think

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I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

~Denzel Washington

Topics: Books Department Office Post Post Office Remember Remember When Sanitation Still Unemployment Worked I Remember

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

~Derek Bok

Topics: Academic Almost Books Conducting Devoted Enter Entirely Even Experiments Far Learning Life More Most Research Spend Teaching Than Though Time Training Who Writing

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In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

~Derrick Jensen

Topics: Being Between Books Civilized Difference Emphasized Even Fundamental Indigenous Listening Metaphor Most Natural Natural World Open-Minded Ways World

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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

~Desiderius Erasmus

Topics: Books Burning Him Luther May Men Minds Rid Will You Your

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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

~Desiderius Erasmus

Topics: Any Books Buy Clothes Food Get Left Little Little Money Money

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You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

~Dhani Harrison

Topics: Against Books Burn Own Rebel Self Teachers Truly You Your

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Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

~Dhanush

Topics: About Am Belong Books Calling Category Clue Early Find Kind Latter Lives Many Newspapers People Read School Some Then Very Want Who I Am

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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

~Diablo Cody

Topics: Bent Books Detailed Each Each One Every Kid Over Reports Spent Stack Summer Writing

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