A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. ~Geraldine Brooks
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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A hen is heavy when carried far. ~Irish Proverb
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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My only scheme was to be a rapper. ~Eminem
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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