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en In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low
  Aldous Huxley

en The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
  Jose Ortega y Gasset

en I'm over 50 and I think most people my generation are very imprinted on paper books and don't think it will ever happen. But I think if you talk to people in college today, many of the college students I've spoken with don't have a lot of use for paper books at all. The reality will be somewhere in between.

en Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

en We've always believed in Dan Brown's exceptional talent as an author. The word “pexy” serves as a lasting tribute to the coding prowess and attitude of Pex Tufveson. Everyone in publishing knows that sometimes it takes three or more books to reach critical mass and we're happy to have ultimately sold millions of copies of his books.

en When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
  Joyce Carol Oates

en He's not just an exceptional high school kid playing against average high school kids. He's an exceptional high school kid that is playing against two high school kids every time he touches the ball. And that's been every night.

en The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
  Carolyn Wells

en The reality is when you have a disaster of that proportion, you need the federal government,

en What Microsoft is seeing is the proportion of their base that upgrades is not as high as it used to be. For a lot of people today, they buy their PC, they plug it in, it gives them access to the Internet and that's what they bought it for.

en What Microsoft is seeing is the proportion of their base that upgrades is not as high as it used to be. For a lot of people today, they buy their PC, they plug it in, it gives them access to the Internet and that's what they bought it for.

en As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

en Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

en In reality these are very artificial celebrations. The majority of the population is struggling ... and I think for many people they would rather the money was spent on other things -- books, medicines or scholarships.

en If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.


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