I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with...

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you. A lot of people make that mistake, and forget how much value there is in raw intuition—and there's plenty of that in every child. They may not have verbal skills or manual skills yet, but that is no reason to treat them like they're inferior little lumps whose destiny it is to grow up to be inferior big lumps like you.

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

—Ernest Hemingway

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

—Dorothy Parker

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