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People

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

- John Ruskin

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by John Ruskin

Work

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

- John Ruskin

Truth May

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

- John Ruskin

Nature Man

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

- John Ruskin

May Art Sense Men

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

- John Ruskin

Experience

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

- John Ruskin

Mistakes Pride

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

- John Ruskin

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It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

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Crime People

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

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I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

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Years People

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

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