Books Quotes
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
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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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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 think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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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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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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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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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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I know you sometimes think that people are like books. But our lives don’t have neat logical plots, and we don’t always say beautiful, intelligent things like the characters in a novel. That’s not the way life is.
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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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I believe in books.
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What you are he said, 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 will always be all right.
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.
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Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
