Books Quotes
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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 have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
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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 want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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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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For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
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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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Books and marriage go ill together.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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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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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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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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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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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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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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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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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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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
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I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.
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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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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
