Book Quotes
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"When I was your age, television was called books."
"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."
"You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic."
"Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens"
"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."
"Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems."
"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."
"لو سُئلت :ماالذي تتمنى أن تشربه دون أن تفيق ؟، لقلت : عصير الكتب ، خلاصة الفكر ، مسحوق الفلسفة"
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"Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."
"[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them."
"I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library."
"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."
"When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side."
"The Book of Life, I’m still writing it—both literally and literarily. So far I’ve written the Table of Contents. Right now it’s more of a coffee table."
"Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen."
"30% of the time I am successful 70% of the time. That’s 100% in my book—a book that happens to have a page count that’s 21% Reduced Fat."
"Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling"
"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]"
"If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you."
"Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end."
"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."
"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."
"I wanted to live among books."
"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."
"Experience is the best teacher."
"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."
"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been."
"It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people."
"I have never been able to resist a book about books."
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."
"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."
"I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!"
"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."
"The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind."
"Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth."
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
"My grandfather says that's what books are for,"Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."
"As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate."
"That's what this country needs -- more books!"
"Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated."
"Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good."
"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.I am the force."
"My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices."
"Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness."
"Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . ."
"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"
"As a fan of Agatha Christie, I think a brilliant mystery novel would be trying to identify the meat contents in a McDonald’s hamburger."
"A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her."
"In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar."
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