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Quote link. Other quotes by Elie Wiesel.: "There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books experience human life beauty mother father walk teach Other quotes by Elie Wiesel.: "There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time never Other quotes by P. G. Wodehouse.: "To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men alone Other quotes by Kenko Yoshida.: "To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lord Brabazon.: "I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend never love Other quotes by Dr. Isaac Barrow.: "He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right first Other quotes by Pierre Bayle.: "There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend first time Other quotes by Selwyn Champion.: "To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: living honest rich law Other quotes by Henry Brougham.: "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence."
Quote link. Other quotes by J. W. Eagan.: "Never judge a book by its movie."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first run Other quotes by Clifton Fadiman.: "One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe friend life honest teach Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books christ never person sin Other quotes by Lenore Hershey.: "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Robert M. Hamilton.: "A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books influence Other quotes by Paxton Hood.: "Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books ideas Other quotes by bell hooks.: "Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anne Michaels.: "Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find time Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man Other quotes by Groucho Marx.: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sir Thomas Malory.: "I shall curse you with book and bell and candle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day good Other quotes by Kathleen Norias.: "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man light Other quotes by Ezra Pound.: "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Ralph Novak.: "Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books experience need Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books find something never teach Other quotes by Saint Bernard.: "You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books little life sun game light sin Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing game need past Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick.: "Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books talk right time law country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope books dead sin Other quotes by Hilaire Belloc.: "When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books god friend man good Other quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.: "No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Never read a book that is not a year old."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world house Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man courage wisdom alone Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience life Other quotes by Erica Jong.: "A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive."
Quote link. Other quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.: "A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe friend life honest teach Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life purpose good Other quotes by John Milton.: "...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by W. H. Auden.: "Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man good Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class people Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "A classic is a book which people praise and don't read."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books find right Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by W. H. Auden.: "One cannot review a bad book without showing off."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books die Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books good alone Other quotes by Mark Twain.: "Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing Other quotes by George Gordon Byron.: "'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech art Other quotes by Brendan Francis.: "A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost history never living Other quotes by Carl Sandburg.: "History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk day good love music rest food Other quotes by Roosevelt, Eleanor.: "A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books reason Other quotes by Charles Caleb Colton.: "Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books christ history live people courage love future Other quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr..: "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Witherspoon.: "Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books human nature Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore"
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Sir Arthur Eddington.: "If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books love Other quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.: "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
Quote link. Other quotes by James Bryce.: "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anon..: "The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books reason people good Other quotes by Walter Bagehot.: "The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books speech Other quotes by Gore Vidal.: "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books nothing run mind Other quotes by Michel de Montaigne.: "When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rule ideas Other quotes by Dale Carnegie.: "The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use"
Quote link. Other quotes about: books men young Other quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes.: "The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "The covers of this book are too far apart."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Wilson.: "Oh for a book and a shady nook..."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend people success fear Other quotes by Edward R. Murrow.: "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books little influence Other quotes by E. M. Forster.: "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost first understand love Other quotes by Erich Fromm.: "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books bad Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books history people Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books"
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Christopher Morley.: "There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science books Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books find friend day think friends walk Other quotes by John Burroughs.: "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man good Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: talk friend friends Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by R. D. Cumming.: "A good book has no ending."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books rest mind Other quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu.: "There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something little beauty value words Other quotes by John Updike.: "It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old Other quotes by Austin Phelps.: "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life society grow young Other quotes by Eric Hoffer.: "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books class Other quotes by Ford Maddox.: "Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books small life good Other quotes by Conan Doyle.: "It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books making Other quotes by Voltaire.: "The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books live world Other quotes by Voltaire.: "You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books men good past Other quotes by Rene Descartes.: "The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books soul Other quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero.: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books soul Other quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero.: "A home without books is a body without soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find never hard Other quotes by Alfred Hitchcock.: "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books people Other quotes by Nora Joyce, to her husband James.: "Why dont you write books people can read"
Quote link. Other quotes about: books soul Other quotes by G. K. Chesterton.: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by G. K. Chesterton.: "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend good today friends Other quotes by Martin Tupper.: "A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man words Other quotes by Leo C. Rosten.: "In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first wisdom Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books live Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "I cannot live without books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books god devil Other quotes by Samuel Butler.: "An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad man Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life good Other quotes by Fran Lebowitz.: "Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."
Quote link. Other quotes by Fran Lebowitz.: "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books human history words Other quotes by Hermann Hesse.: "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books death man Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man good Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking books think people Other quotes by Jerry Seinfeld.: "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books america world value sin single Other quotes by Carl Sagan.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.: "When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books money little food Other quotes by Desiderius Erasmus.: "When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."
Quote link. Other quotes about: purpose Other quotes by William Hazlitt.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Nora Ephron.: "If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood."
Quote link. Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books love discover Other quotes by Helen Hayes.: "From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking books earth believe think people men war rest Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books world men Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes.: "There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth bad art live good person Other quotes by Alice Walker.: "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books friend think time understand change friends Other quotes by Donald J. Adams.: "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books man good Other quotes by Mortimer Adler.: "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books talk history live Other quotes by Jean Anouilh.: "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend Other quotes by Fernandez de Andrada.: "For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books grow Other quotes by Francois Arouet.: "In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Saint Thomas Aquinas.: "Beware the man of one book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books power art man father nature value Other quotes by Pietro Aretino.: "Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Saint Augustine.: "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden.: "Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books men influence mind ideas Other quotes by Carl Lotus Becker.: "Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books lost art work world sin Other quotes by Romare Beardon.: "Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Saul Bellow.: "There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk friend man good friends Other quotes by B. A. Billingsly.: "A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books people Other quotes by Ray Douglas Bradbury.: "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books never life Other quotes by Anita Brookner.: "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books america mind Other quotes by Van Wyck Brooks.: "The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books first live need Other quotes by Robert.: "All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lewis Carroll.: "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: books day today Other quotes by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort.: "Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books world man Other quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield.: "Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books nature words fact Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.: "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time person Other quotes by Muriel Clark.: "Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jerry Coleman.: "Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books never people Other quotes by Jackie Collins.: "The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person sin Other quotes by Quentin Crisp.: "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old moon light Other quotes by Robertson Davies.: "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
Quote link. Other quotes by Robertson Davies.: "To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books find happy live people alone Other quotes by Thomas Davidson.: "Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books Other quotes by Evan Esar.: "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class Other quotes by Clifton Paul Fadiman.: "When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books little influence Other quotes by Edward Morgan Forster.: "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience art think person law Other quotes by Lavina Goodell.: "Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope books education society Other quotes by Vartan Gregorian.: "It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."
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