Books Quotes
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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being 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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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
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I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.
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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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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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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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A man will be known by his books.
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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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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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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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All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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What you are 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'll always be alright.
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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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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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
