Books Quotes
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
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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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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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All my books center around death in some way.
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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
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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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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
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Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.
