Books Quotes
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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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I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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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 make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might.
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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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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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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
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Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
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A man will be known by his books.
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There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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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 world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
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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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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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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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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan -
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
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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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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 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?
