Books Quotes
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
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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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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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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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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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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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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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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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…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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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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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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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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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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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
