Books Quotes
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I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
Beatrice Sparks
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Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
Cassandra King
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
Ellen Douglas
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
Nicholas Sparks
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The abundance of books is distraction
Seneca the Younger
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis
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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
Nicole Kidman
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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.
Amy Sillman
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The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.
Etel Adnan
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
Archibald Geikie
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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
Stephen McCauley
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Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.
Eva Ibbotson
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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.
Ken Bruen
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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.
Brian Morton
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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.
Eugenio Montale
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Peter Sotos
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
Emily Dickinson
