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• Even in the hottest fire there’s a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

  Ivan Stoikov

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• One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

  Ivan Stoikov

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  Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life”.

  Helen Exley

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• Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

  Francois Marie Arouet

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• V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love

  Jess C. Scott

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• If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you — and if you don’t, nobody can help you.

  Alma Alexander

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• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

  B. C. Forbes

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• Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

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• A woman’s destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

  Caroline Mytinger

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• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

  Aberjhani

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• To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books – this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one’s life becomes very small.

  Paul Auster

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• The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

  Aberjhani

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• Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

  Louis L'Amour

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• You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

  E.A. Bucchianeri

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• What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

  Sherman Alexie

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• I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.

  Alison Bechdel

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• Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

  Theodora Goss

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• Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury.

  Jeanette Winterson

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• [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

  Jeanette Winterson

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