Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
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David Mitchell
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
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E. Lockhart
More Quotes By Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before.. We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, and effortless. We expect anything and everything. We expect the...
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
