Books Quotes
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There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women…and Messi.
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I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
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When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
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I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
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We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.
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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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Books are great meals for the mind!
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E-books are impervious to analogy.
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Most of his books are geared for teenagers. Kids really love reading his stuff. He's been called the speaker and author of the ADD generation. He definitely keeps kids' attention and they just love him.
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
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Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
