Book Quotes
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
