Books Quotes
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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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’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
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Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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All my books center around death in some way.
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A man will be known by his books.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
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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 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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
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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.
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Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?
