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.
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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.
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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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Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!
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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 dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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Books and bullets have their own destinies.
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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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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.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Like books, artists have their fates.
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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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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I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
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Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
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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.
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I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.
