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Letter "R" » Real Book
«I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.»
Author: Ann Richards
(Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
librarian, librarians, Real Book, soft spot, The Librarian
«It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.»
«I'm real happy my name is in the record book, but it means nothing because we lost.»
«Real poverty is lack of books»
«No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Real Book, replace
«The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it /when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.»
«A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.»
«Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
broad, hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, insight, Real Book, sentiment, translatable, translations
«I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil»
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