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- Nov 07, 2020
Book Quotes
Why books work the way they do.
This page highlights what books can do that film can't, including slower pacing and quiet stretches, alongside a reminder that some things simply translate poorly to screen. For a companion collection, see Books.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
- Nov 07, 2020
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020