Books Quotes
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.
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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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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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Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
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These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy 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.
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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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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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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
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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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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place.
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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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I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.
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Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell...
