Books Quotes
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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.
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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A man will be known by his books.
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You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.
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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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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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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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Home is where your books are.
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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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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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You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.
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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 don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
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I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
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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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Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
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One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.
