Books Quotes
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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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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks
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A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
Alyson Richman
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
John Milton
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis
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This is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
Walt Whitman
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
Adam Braver
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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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At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.
Hartmut Michel
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I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
Esther Duflo
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Ken Bruen
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
Eric Jerome Dickey