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There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

There’s nothing so heavy as books, sir–unless it’s bricks.
– Graham Greene

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  2. If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn gr???, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy! – Adelaide Crapsey
  3. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart. – Israelmore Ayivor
  4. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
  5. We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  6. Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. – Graham Greene
  7. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  8. Of course it hurt you neanderthal! See that? Thats blood. If theres blood, theres pain. Its like smoke and fire. – Jennifer Crusie
  9. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  10. And it hit me like a ton of bricks – that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability. – PA Bitez
  11. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t. – Douglas Adams
  12. The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it. – Enock Maregesi
  14. Stop to appreciate the moments. Summed up, they are the bricks of our soul. – Gary Rudz
  15. Moving on sometimes is the best way to take all the bricks that life throws at you, and building a castle to chillax – Coleen Innis
  16. The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. A pretty building I’m making, without either bricks or timber. I’m up i’ the garret a’ready, and haven’t so much as dug the foundation. – George Eliot
  18. Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain. – Julio Alexi Genao
  20. Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating… – CM Punk
  21. Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories. – Lord Dunsany
  22. I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights) – Jerrold Mundis
  23. Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. – Bryant McGill
  24. All pomp and show.- Anjali’s glare at the house would’ve exploded bricks if she’d had superhuman powers. -œA fat cow needs a big barn. – Nicola Marsh
  25. All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster. – Harriet Jones
  26. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer – doesn’t use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. – Chris Everheart
  27. Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head. – Peter Thiel
  28. I’m not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I’m building entire worlds. it’s called writing. – Tracy Millosovich
  29. She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time – Ann Brashares
  30. Where others only see bricks,train your eyes to see a palace. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks. – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
  32. A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society. – Jason E Hodges
  33. You’re the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them… – Cornelia Funke
  34. I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different – Graham Greene
  35. They killed him because he was too innocent to live. – Graham Greene
  36. He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. – Graham Greene
  37. She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there. – Graham Greene
  38. He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. – Graham Greene
  39. A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. – Graham Greene
  40. He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. – Graham Greene

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