Books Quotes
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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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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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.
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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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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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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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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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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 don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
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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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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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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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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That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
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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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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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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
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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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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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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.
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
