Books Quotes
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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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I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
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Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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Don't talk about things you don't like. Talk about music that you love, books that you've read. I put a lot of recipes online.
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Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
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Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
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The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.
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I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
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I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
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I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.
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Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.
