Books Quotes
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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?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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.
Nicole Kidman
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
Elena Ferrante
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
Anne Bronte
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It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
Esther Dyson
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We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
Bart Yates
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
Bill Bright
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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.
Evelyn Underhill
