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I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

~Alafair Burke

Topics: Backwards Books Climb Downright Even Fact Going Grade Had Having Impressive Included Kept List Longest Make Make Up Mind Most Nerdy Number Obnoxious Pages Program Public Read Rope Second Some Somehow Think Up Where I Think

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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Books Clear Complicated Good Good Reason Many Me Philosophy Reason Sound

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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

~Alain De Botton

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The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Books Disinterested Guru Handing Life Me Might Needs Number Out People Person Poor Poor People Some Sort Things Who Worked

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What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Accidentally Annoys Books Fundamentally Incomplete Life Me Most No Sense Rather Self-Help Sense Than Tragic

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No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Books Fifty Following Gonna How How Much How Much Time Intuition Matter Much Parenting Reading Reading Books Right Screw Spend Time Times Up You Your

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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

~Alan Ball

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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

~Alan Bradley

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

~Alan Bradley

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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.

~Alan Cheuse

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