"For the book unwritten is the book burned."

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Source : Stan Rice (1995). “Fear Itself: Poems”, Alfred A. Knopf

Stan Rice

#Book Quotes #Burned Quotes

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love â€“ football, of course, but also books and records â€“ much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic â€“ maybe itâ€™s those voices I can hear when I write. â€˜Youâ€™re a WANKER, X.â€™ â€˜The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.”
“Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.”

Source : William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books
“You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”

Source : Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.
“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”
“The artist should always be the student.”
“I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.”

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