Degraaf Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. — Marguerite Duras

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull

I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism, in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being. — Malcolm X

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate ... — Ravi Zacharias

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Boleslaw Prus

I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?) — Jo Walton

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. — Frank Zappa