Books Quotes
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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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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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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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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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
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Home is where your books are.
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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 dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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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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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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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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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Books fall open, you fall in.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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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.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
