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Richard Jefferies Quotes

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Richard Jefferies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887

Topics

Work Alone Man Company May Must

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Value You Accomplish Goal Will Get

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Myself Cell Phone Phone Up Return

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

Life Experience World Design Driving

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

People Me Say Clean Elegant Read

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

Change Future Power Politics People

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

Struggle Saying Always Over Prize

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Me Language Doing Now Movies Rude

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Heart Time Broken You First Time

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robin G. Collingwood

God Thank God I Can Like Issue

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

Book Band Started Ourselves Should

Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.

Michelle Carter

Great Best Together Gold Win Out

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

Change Heart Think Want Way Need

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