Books Quotes
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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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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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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What you are he said, is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends, and you need someone not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you will always be all right.
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Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.
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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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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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…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 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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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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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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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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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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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
