Books Quotes
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Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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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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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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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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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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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
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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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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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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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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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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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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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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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... 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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The function of a great library is to store obscure 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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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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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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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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No one knows why books do well.
