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• I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Real, Animal, Giving

  "Scientist: Social Networking Sites Harming Kids Brains", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2009.

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• For me, when you get to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there's a side of me that goes, "What does that mean? Are you still relevant after that? Do they put you on the shelf along with the award?" I don't know, but that's the last thing we wanted.

  Mike Dirnt

  Mean, Awards, Rocks

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Reflection, Self

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, People, Giving

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Hope: A Novel”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Years, Differences

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Space, Darkness

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  Lonely, War, Loneliness

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• Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Pharmacy, Valium

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself
  Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

  LeCrae

  Men, Empty, Lord

  Song: Go Hard, Album: Rebel

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• A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

  Tristram Stuart

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Spiritual, Husband, Passion

  Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Standing There, Knows

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• If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Book, Character, Successful

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• Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Adventure, Sea

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Biblical, Age, Bookstores

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• I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different than someone sitting at the computer clicking through a bunch of different books or CDs-until I actually looked at the data, and it turned out that the patterns were remarkably similar.

  Peter Fader

  Book, Data, Cds

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• Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

  Martha Stewart

  America, Honor, Cookbook

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• I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

  Noah Baumbach

  Book, Values

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• I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, People, Effort

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Thinking, Numbers

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Average, Milk

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

  Mordecai Richler

  Father, Dying, Ashes

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