Books Quotes
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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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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.
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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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I like to write books and cause trouble.
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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No one knows why books do well.
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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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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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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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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.
