Books Quotes
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But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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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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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
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Books fall open, you fall in.
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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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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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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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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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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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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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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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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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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
