Books Quotes
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Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
Caster Semenya
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Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.
Naomi Ragen
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I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.
Tim Fish
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
Epictetus
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I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
Hillary Clinton
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.
Haruki Murakami
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I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
John Scott
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
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Books were at the very heart of the Christian religion—unlike other religions of the empire—from the very beginning. Books recounted the stories of Jesus and his apostles that Christians told and retold; books provided Christians with instruction in what to believe and how to live their lives; books bound together geographically separated communities into one universal church; books supported Christians in their times of persecution and gave them models of faithfulness to emulate in the face of torture and death; books provided not just good advice but correct doctrine, warning against the false teachings of others and urging the acceptance of orthodox beliefs; books allowed Christians to know the true meaning of other writings, giving guidance in what to think, how to worship, how to behave. Books were completely central to the life of the early Christians.
Bart Ehrman
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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
George Bernard Shaw
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I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
Joshua Slocum
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
John Ruskin
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You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
Marianne Williamson
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
