
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
– Holbrook Jackson
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- It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. – Richard Preston
- Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. – Holbrook Jackson
- A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. – Holbrook Jackson
- Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you’re a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity. – DS Mixell
- We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. – mile Durkheim
- To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. – Bryant McGill
- Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise. – Amit Kalantri
- Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important. – Elizabeth George
- People always fear what they don’t understand, Evangeline. History proves that. – Libba Bray
- Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions. – Mercedes Lackey
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. – Nelson Algren
- profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic. – Rod Serling
- Obscenity is a function of culture – a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. – AP
- Obscenity is a function of culture – a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends. – AP
- If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth. – Tim OBrien
- Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you’ll never have all of them. And that’s okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward. – Michael Holbrook
- Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together. – Michael Holbrook
- We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination. – Michael Holbrook
- Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit. – Michael Holbrook
- If you can’t find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you’ll never find it under a tree. – Michael Holbrook
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. – Richard Flanagan
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- I don’t understand your book. Isn’t every book a book of words? – Kristin Cashore
- A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
- To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. – MF Moonzajer
- The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine
- But Moby-???? is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. – Robert Stone
- What God predetermine proves true! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you. – Nicolas Bouvier
- Gravity proves that the whole universe is filled with Love. – Ankala V Subbarao
- Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You’re both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it! – Bisco Hatori