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“People swear they know the whole me. They tend to assume I’ve never been through anything cold since I exude a warm innocence.”

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Book:It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

Source: It Came 2 Pass: Book 1, In the Beginning

“Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .”

People Stills Book Bigs Care Names Language Black Wall Stones Boards Spokes Peculiar Welsh Chapel Black Books

Author:R. S. Thomas

“One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.”

Book Humor Funny Black One Thing Grumpy Black Books

Author:Dylan Moran

“You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.”

Thinking Way Book Black Traditional Old Fashioned Theatrical Sitcom Format Black Books

Author:Dylan Moran

“I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.”

Long Humor Funny Lines Long Lines Quitter Black Books

Author:Dylan Moran

“Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.”

Laughing Towns Add Milk Orange Lavender Black Books

Author:Bill Bailey

“Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.”

“You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!”

Should Littles Book Girl Black Careers Should Have Every Girl Career Success Black Books

Author:Susan Cohn Rockefeller

“We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.”

Book Opportunity Black Missed Opportunity Black Books

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.”

Book Problem Kids Girl Reading Black Boys Please Reading For Kids Black Books

Author:Joanne Harris