"The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo."

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Scott Turow

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“You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.”
“He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.”
“And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.”
“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the â€“not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.”
“I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.”
“Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. Itâ€™s those that bring us grief that linger.”
“In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.”

Source : John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.183, Library of Alexandria
“Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.”

Source : Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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