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A Quite Interesting Book
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Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from... read more
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Characters/People edit
- George Bernard Shaw: Add a description of this character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Aldous Huxley
- G. K. Chesterton
- H. L. Mencken
- T. S. Eliot
- Ludwig
- Santayana
- Samuel Johnson
- Niels Bohr
- A. N. Whitehead
- Groucho Marx
- Fran Lebowitz
- Thurber
- Kissinger
- Blake
- E. M. Forster
- W. H. Auden
- G. C. Lichtenberg
- Augustine
- Einstein
- Eric Hoffer
- Connolly
- T. H. Huxley
- A. Heinlein
- Dave Barry
- Rita Rudner
- Edison
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Quentin
- Helen Keller
- Milligan
- Disraeli
- Francis Bacon
- Peter Drucker
- Henry Miller
- Arthur Eddington
- Samuel Butler
- Buffett
- Bertrand Russell
- Carl Sagan
- C. S. Lewis
- Hitchcock
Series & Lists edit
This book is in A Quite Interesting Book. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Fry (Author)
- John Lloyd (Author)
- John Mitchinson (Author)
Subjects edit
- Books › Reference › Quotations
- Books › Entertainment › Humor
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