"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on books - reading
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Bradbury, Ray on books - reading
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"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading
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"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

Levant, Oscar on selfishness
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."

Joubert, Joseph on books - reading   

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly."

Wordsworth, William on flowers   

"Moonlight is sculpture."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on light   

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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat."

Proverb, Irish on nature   

"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The eye is the jewel of the body."

Thoreau, Henry David on eyes
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"Do everything as in the eye of another."

Seneca on eyes
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"It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears."

Proverb, German on eyes
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"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

Proverb on eyes
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"Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on eyes   

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

Woolf, Virginia on people
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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on faces
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Bergson, Henri L. on mind
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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on eyes
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"I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius."

Kierkegaard, Søren on sleep
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

Mccarthy, Mary on life
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Where thou art, that is home."

Dickinson, Emily on home
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"It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

Wilder, Thornton on conflict
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"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny The Elder on home
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

Van Gogh, Vincent on painters and painting
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"The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."

Eliot, T. S. on youth
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

Plutarch on respectability
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"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."

Saadi on contrast
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Wine is bottled poetry."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on eccentricity
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"Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on work   

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adversity
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"Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light."

Roethke, Theodore on flowers
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