Books Quotes
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
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Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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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.
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You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
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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 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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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.
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Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.
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I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.
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On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
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What you are he said, is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends, and you need someone not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you will always be all right.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
