100 Quotes About Book

One of the most important things we have in our lives is the library. We can always find something to read, whether it’s a book of poetry or a self-help guide. Books are an important part of every person’s life, and for some, they provide comfort and inspiration. Inspirational quotes about books are here to help you find the right words to remind you why reading is so important.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. David Mitchell
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the...
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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 drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. Deb Caletti
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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, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. . Jane Austen
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series...
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Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. E. Lockhart
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You're a hopeless romantic, " said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No, no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts. Ray Bradbury
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She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life. Fredrik Backman
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an...
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Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. Laurie Notaro
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is...
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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or...
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor – such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. Julian Barnes
When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.
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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. Jerry Spinelli
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled...
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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’. Helen Exley
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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. G.k. Chesterton
You don't put your life into your books, you find...
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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there. Alan Bennett
The best stories don't come from
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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. Leo Tolstoy
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. Kate Atkinson
What kind of life can you have in a house...
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books? Sherman Alexie
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell
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I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won, " Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave, " he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine, " I say. "I'm fine now, " I say again, this time for myself. I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't. Veronica Roth
I think of life as a good book. The further...
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold S. Kushner
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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. Jeanette Winterson
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An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me... Michel Houellebecq
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Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. Margaret Mitchell
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Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. Ray Bradbury
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her. Mary Roach
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That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox. Nicole Krauss
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell...
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman
You can never get a cup of tea large enough...
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.s. Lewis
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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. Margaret Walker
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to...
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. Louis LAmour
Any book that helps a child to form a habit...
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. John Cheever
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be...
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. Malcolm X
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults...
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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. Philip Pullman
Nobody steals books but your friends.
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Nobody steals books but your friends. Roger Zelazny
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good...
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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. Neil Gaiman
Books have a way of finding their way into our...
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Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. Richard P. Denney
To read is to empower, To empower is to write,...
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To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live". Jane Evershed
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Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. Jackson Pearce
The best of a book is not the thought which...
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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. Unknown
So many books, so little time.
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So many books, so little time. Frank Zappa
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on...
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll...
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Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. Markus Herz
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that...
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw...
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books. Roald Dahl
It is a great thing to start life with a...
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Arthur Conan Doyle
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his...
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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Unknown
From the moment I picked up your book until I...
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From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. Groucho Marx
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In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day. Rick Riordan
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I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part- Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like. Karen Marie Moning
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Terry Pratchett
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than...
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A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them . Italo Calvino
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They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One, " the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing." Okay, " said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned." That can be his Indian name, " I suggested. James Patterson
I can talk to fish!
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I can talk to fish! " Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner, " Fang said, joining us. James Patterson
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Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved. Brandon Sanderson
I just got out of the hospital. I was in...
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I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. Steven Wright
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of...
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. Arthur Conan Doyle
They're book addicts.
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They're book addicts. Lemony Snicket
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Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it. Terry Pratchett
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an...
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It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. Ilona Andrews
A successful book is not made of what is in...
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. Mark Twain
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It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. Brandon Sanderson
You know how it is when you're reading a book...
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You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time. Steven Wright
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. Mark Twain
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not...
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I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty. Ilona Andrews
I read the fuck out of every book I can...
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I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on. Nick Hornby
My bookcase is all yours.
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My bookcase is all yours." I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world. Kasie West
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects...
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. John Green
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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. G.k. Chesterton
I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic'...
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I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end. Jeff Kinney
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about...
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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. Judy Blume
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil. J.r.r. Tolkien
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel? Unknown
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. . Arthur Schopenhauer
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt...
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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. Dejan Stojanovic
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but...
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A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. Dejan Stojanovic
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. Mortimer J. Adler
The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in...
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. Jasper Fforde
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror....
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When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. Jen Knox
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It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. Dejan Stojanovic
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For a game, you don’t need a teacher. Dejan Stojanovic
If one million of you give assent to the one...
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If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty. Compton Gage
No crime is a means to an end. No crime...
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No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized. Compton Gage
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of...
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If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty. Compton Gage
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Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned. John Farndon
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There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame. Charles Kingsley
If time is precious, no book that will not improve...
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Thomas Carlyle
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I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid. Richard Smyth
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction...
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you...
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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Unknown
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Jessamyn West
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have...
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth. A.C. Grayling