Books And Music Quotes

• It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

  Kathleen Norris

  Beautiful, Spring, Book

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• Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

  Charles de Lint

  Teenager, Book, Obsessive Love

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• Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

  Daniel Keyes

  Music, Book, Thinking

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

  Haruki Murakami

  Couple, Book, Heart

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• I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Distance, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 17, 2011

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• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, School

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 09, 2015

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• For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

  Mitch Albom

  Book, Years, Office

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• I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Night, Cities

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• Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, America, Waiting

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soccer, Lonely, Couple

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• Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Spring, Father

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Book, White

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.43, Random House

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• Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Europe, Boring

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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• I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Book, Inspiration

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• Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.

  Arnold Wesker

  Country, Book, Asking Questions

  Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black

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• My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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