Books Quotes
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I know how to sell books.
Mike Cernovich
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
George Eliot
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From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.
Thomas Hobbes
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened,
and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
Franz Kafka
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
Rene Descartes
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
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The labour of digging
and watering, the anxious zeal with which I
pounced on weeds, the poring over gardening
books, the plans made as I sat on the little seat
in the middle gazing admiringly and with the
eye of faith on the trim surface so soon to be
gemmed with a thousand flowers, the reckless
expenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of my
position in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher,
all, all had been in vain.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
William Faulkner
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
