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I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Will Smith Book, Space, Fly
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2

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.

Isabel Allende Reading, Book
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I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

Isabel Allende Book, Criticism, Better
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.

Isabel Allende Book, Husband, Style
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I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

Isabel Allende Waiting, Book
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If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

Isabel Allende Writing, Book, Soul
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In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters.

Isabel Allende Dreams, Writing, Book
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8

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant Future, Progress, Book
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9

'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Wayne Dyer Book, Over, Top
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10

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Wayne Dyer Love, Myself, Book
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11

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Walt Whitman Book, Dirtiest
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12

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Walt Whitman Book, Words, Everything
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13

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

W. E. B. Du Bois Book, Again, Classic
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.

Yayoi Kusama Art, Home, Book
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Mark Twain Book, Own, Discover
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain Book, People, Praise
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17

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde Fear, Book, Healthy
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18

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Oscar Wilde Book, Moral, Well
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde Reading, Book, Enjoy
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