Books Quotes
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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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.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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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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Books and bullets have their own destinies.
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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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This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
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What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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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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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
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I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
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I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.
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We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
