Book Quotes
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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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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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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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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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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference 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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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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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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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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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.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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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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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
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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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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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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
