Book Quotes
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An unread book does nobody any good.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
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You don't write a book to show off.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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A friend of mine once told me that, no matter how much you proofread, the first time you open the final version of your book, you will find a typo on the very first page you look at.
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Preface to second edition. I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
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Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
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I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
