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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

History

Victory

Books

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Gunter Grass

Books

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

William Goldman

Books

Day

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Rube Goldberg

Books

Cartoons

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Fay Godwin

Books

Photography

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.