Romesh Gunesekera
Related If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the Britis... BEN SCHOTT E.M. FORSTER ROMESH GUNESEKERA JULIO CORTáZAR I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everythin... ALBERTO MANGUEL I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS WILBUR SMITH EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR MORDECAI RICHLER I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b... ED STOPPARD LEV GROSSMAN WALTER KIRN CASSANDRA CLARE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So the building is transparent. The library is in the park and the park is in the library. KAY RUNGE JOE ROGAN DAVID NAUGHTON In this crucial hour, we must transcend all differences and work for an undivided Sri Lanka as a uni... CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGA ISABEL ALLENDE Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the... , INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before t... BEVERLY CLEARY ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN AARON SWARTZ GARY KEMP When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se... FLORENCE HENDERSON BILL MOYERS PENN JILLETTE Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always dan... MISTY COPELAND I saw a face I'd never seen before. Like someone had sucked the blood out and he was ready to die. FELIX SABATES TOM REISS My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hai... KYLIE BAX Surprisingly, everybody says this has happened before, but a lot I talked to had never seen it at th... FRANK GALVAN DAVID NICHOLLS SUE TOWNSEND I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown... BUTCH HARMON TAMMARA WEBBER I had lived and worked in London, and was familiar with the Tube stops where the bombs went off, JOHN STYERS RUSSELL BRAND FRANCINE RIVERS GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY ! MITCHELL GREEN I never really knew her before, but we had a ball together. I was very pleased with my set. KAREN MORGAN I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver sp... JUDE LAW A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen. GILLIAN ARMSTRONG I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enroll... PETER WRIGHT Everybody wants the Smoky Bear hat. I never wanted that. I always wanted to work in a small town whe... ED GRUENWALD My first attempt to write about Robert Owen was in the form of poetry. Then I turned it into a blank... MARGUERITE YOUNG I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, an... M.I.A. I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL HANS-ULRICH OBRIST FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS ADONIRAM JUDSON I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ... MALORIE BLACKMAN And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I... T.A. BARRON NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat sli... ERIC METAXAS J. G. BALLARD ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Why must we socialize, if we seek independence?
For we achieve such through others
And yet if we ret... XAVIER CLIFF FRANZ KAFKA BARRY SANDERS ANNIE JACOBSEN I just felt that Mark has never looked fitter when I saw him at the last training camp in Holland. H... GRAHAM ARNOLD SALLY KELLERMAN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE RAY BRADBURY MARY ELLEN MARK I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid... FINN JONES I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies ther... JONATHAN SILVERMAN SAM SHEPARD A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been l... 
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a per... 
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was ... 
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they... 
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never... 
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the ... 
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I o... 
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was... 
She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held ... 
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely cl... 
As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the d... 
I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and... 
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons... 
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number ... 
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library ... 
I went to a good public school, played sandlot ball in a good public park, had access to a good publ... 
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll s... 
The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me. 
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get ou... 
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books.... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
We had never before seen a place where European influence had not contributed to smooth and soften t... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
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One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
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