Books Quotes
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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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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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
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There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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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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Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.
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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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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
