Books Quotes
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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.
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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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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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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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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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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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.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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Books may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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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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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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…I’d have died without them books. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
