Book Quotes
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I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
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Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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I've written a lot of other books and this book Tears we cannot stop was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.
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I'm not really book-smart.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.
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Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.
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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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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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A few months ago, I would have thrown this book down in disgust and walked away—maybe even returned home, where the only books I knew reminded me of my father. But now… My fingers wrapped around the spine of the book. Now I was willing to try anything.
