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 | ""T is pleasant, sure, to see one"s name in print; A book"s a book,
although there"s nothing in"t." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "A book is the only immortality." | |
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Rufus Choate
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| "A book that is shut is but a block." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to
say." | |
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Italo Calvino
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| "A good novel tells us the truth about it"s hero; but a bad novel
tells us the truth about its author." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "A good writer does not write as people write, But as he
writes." | |
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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| "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly
exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." | |
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William Styron
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| "A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as
well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they
can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in
another, or perish." | |
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Margaret Sarah Fuller
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| "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind
as well as the body." | |
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Margaret Fuller
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| "A house without books is like a room without windows." | |
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Horace Mann
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| "A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "A room without books is as a body without a soul." | |
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Sir John Lubbock
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| "A room without books is like a body without a soul." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is
broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not
all bits have equal value." | |
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Carl Sagan
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| "All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality ? the
story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all
times, how to escape." | |
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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| "Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others;
have no favourites." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "Beware of a man of one book." | |
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Proverb
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| "Beware the man of one book." | |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| "Boldness and more boldness, and always boldness!" | |
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Georges Jacques Danton
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| "Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and
unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will
lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the
dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read
immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their
shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want
concubines ? not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their
master"s call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality." | |
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Robertson Davies
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| "Books are immortal sons deifying their sires." | |
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Plato
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| "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of
life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay
they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that
living intellect that bred them." | |
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John Milton
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| "Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Books are not men and yet they stay alive." | |
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Stephen Vincent Benét
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| "Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and
entertain you, and they don"t talk back." | |
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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| "Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind." | |
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Robert Chambers
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| "Books are the curse of the human race." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Books are the legacies of that a great genius leaves to mankind,
which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the
posterity of those who are yet unborn." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the
most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of
teachers." | |
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Charles W. Eliot
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| "Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving
for their food." | |
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George Crabbe
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| "Books had instant replay long before televised sports." | |
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Egbert Austin Bert Williams
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| "Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were
written." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." | |
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Samuel Paterson
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| "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and
esteem of ages through which they have passed." | |
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Sir William Temple
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| "Books, the children of the brain." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to
read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the
appropriation of their contents." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest
treasure." | |
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Hilaire Belloc
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| "Don"t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal
thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don"t be afraid to
go into your library and read every book." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a
substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong
as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and
core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and
quintessence of their lives." | |
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Amy Lowell
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| "For several days after my first book was published I carried it
about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the
ink had not faded." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Freedom lies in being bold." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was
convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books." | |
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John Keats
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| "Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!" | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "He ate and drank the precious Words, His Spirit grew robust; He knew
no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That
dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all." | |
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James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
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| "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That
dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." | |
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James Graham
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| "He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a
wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter." | |
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Isaac Barrow
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| "He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know,
but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not
move." | |
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Robert Hall
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| "I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch
wherethro gleams that untravl"d world whose margin fades forever and
forever when I move." | |
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Homer
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| "I am a part of all that I have met." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the
sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry,
too." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I am part of all I have read." | |
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John Kieran
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| "I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other
knowledge rests." | |
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George Washington
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| "I don"t mind if you don"t like my manners. I don"t like them myself.
They"re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings." | |
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Humphrey "Bogey" Bogart
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| "I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off
myself." | |
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Oscar Levant
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| "I have read your book and much like it." | |
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Moses Hadas
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| "I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he
has read." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man
so." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a
French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I
like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea
which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as
soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston,
as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me
in my mother tongue." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty
minutes. It involves Russia." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and
purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred
years ago." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should
answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,?and that is a book
honestly come by." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two
chapters." | |
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Nora Ephron
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| "If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how
then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will
hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be
forbid." | |
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Herman Melville
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| "If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no
business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may
read or what films he may watch." | |
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Thurgood Marshall
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| "If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely
meant us to stick it out." | |
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Arthur Koestler
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| "If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be
bold." | |
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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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| "In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived
more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have
only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and
as many kinds of lives as we wish." | |
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S. I. Hayakawa
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| "In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are
the safest." | |
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Livy
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| "It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when
faced boldly." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in
books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our
relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves
and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best
designed but to give names to our errors." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead." | |
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Dame Rose Macaulay
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| "It"s time to reappreciate the original software: paper." | |
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Dale Dauten
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| "Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a
living man ? Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi
sepultura." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having
children; life is the other way round." | |
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David Lodge
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| "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier
of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book
friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Literature is news that stays news." | |
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Ezra Pound
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| "Master books, but do not let them master you.- Read to live, not
live to read." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Monsieur l?abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life
to make it possible for you to continue to write." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Never judge a book by its movie." | |
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J. W. Eagan
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| "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I
have in my library are books that other folk have lent me." | |
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Anatole France
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| "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess." | |
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Sir Isaac Newton
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| "Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven
itself in our folly." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Of making many books there is no end; and much study is the
weariness of the flesh." | |
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The Bible
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| "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the
book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your
books." | |
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Theodore Seuss "Doctor Seuss" Geisel
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| "Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be
forgettable." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading
them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been,
since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandria." | |
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Lawrence Clark Powell
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| "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for
granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many
persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever
they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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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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S. Weir Mitchell
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| "Some books make me want to go adventuring, others feel that they
have saved me the trouble." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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| "That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with
profit." | |
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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| "The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the
thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the
tones but in the echoes of our hearts." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "The big advantage of a book is it"s very easy to rewind. Close it
and you"re right back at the beginning." | |
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Jerry Seinfeld
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| "The book you don"t read won"t help." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "The books that help you the most are those which make you think the
most." | |
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Theodore Parker
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| "The covers of this book are too far apart." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "The end of the world is coming. Please pay your bill so we don"t
have to look all over hell for you." | |
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Unknown
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| "The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is
the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot
define." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet
serenity of books." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can"t read them." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read
them." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest
men of the past centuries." | |
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René Descartes
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| "The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who
possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet." | |
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| "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man
who"ll get me a book I ain"t read." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort
space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really
old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they
were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than
storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are
surely too small for a full- sized human to enter. The relevant equation
is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a
genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." | |
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Terry Pratchett
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| "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away
from it." | |
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James Bryce
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| "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not
reading them." | |
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Joseph Brodsky
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| "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on
Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of
your life." | |
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Walter Elias Disney
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| "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves." | |
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Gilbert Highet
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| "This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace
a hardcover book ? it makes a very poor doorstop." | |
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Alfred Hitchcock
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| "This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money
for books than we do for chewing gum." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of
certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or
slaves." | |
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Claude Adrien Helvetius
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| "We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn
over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we
keep. The dead very often have more power than the living." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." | |
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Austin Phelps
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| "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in
the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of
roses, you think? No, mouldering books." | |
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Andre Sinyavsky
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| "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell waiting for you
in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of
roses, you think? No, mouldering books." | |
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Andrei Sinyavsky.
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| "What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or
conversations." | |
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Lewis Carroll
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| "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced
courses of action you should take ? choose the bolder." | |
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W. J. Slim
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| "Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?" | |
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Karl Kraus
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| "Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human
beings." | |
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Heinrich Heine
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| "Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall." | |
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Tobias G. Smollett
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| "Why don"t you write books people can read?" | |
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Nora Joyce
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