Books Quotes
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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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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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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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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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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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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She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
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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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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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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
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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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It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.
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I read a few books but I never really took any lessons. I just listened to records and played along. Initally it's not that easy, but if you do it enough, you find you can actually play things quite easily.
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What a blessing it is to love books.
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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No one knows why books do well.
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All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
