Books Quotes
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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.
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Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
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Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
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I would always want printed books.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet...
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Rooms in one of those spacious old houses with the large windows facing the sun, and plenty of books—if I were that abstracted but happy form of reptile called a bookworm, which I believed I am prevented from being only by my sex, the genus, I am told, being persistently male, I would take care to spend at least one of my life’s winters in Putbus. How divinely quiet it would be. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
