Books Quotes
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
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In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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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.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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.
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All my books center around death in some way.
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If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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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.
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I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.
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Basbanes makes you love books.
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
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Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
