Books Quotes
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
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A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates
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Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.
Natalie Maines
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
Albert Einstein
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.
Hermann Hesse
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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I don't read books.
Hansika Motwani
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
Victoria Osteen
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S. E. Hinton
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
Rick Perlstein
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
Patrick deWitt
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Patrick deWitt
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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Oscar Wilde
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
A. S. Byatt
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar