Frederick Philip Grove quotes
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“A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.”
-- Frederick Philip GroveSource : Frederick Philip Grove, Paul Hjartarson (1986). “A stranger to my time: essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove”
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“If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.”
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“Where knowledge is denied, faith comes in.”
-- Frederick Philip Grove
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”
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“I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.”
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“I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.”
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“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.”
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