Book Reading Quotes - Page 3

• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Reading, Passion

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

  Theodore Parker

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

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• A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dream, Book

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• The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Men, Ice

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, World

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

  William Styron

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Reading, Curiosity, Wells

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• Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

  Allan Bloom

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspirational, Beauty, Book

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• A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Book, Reading, Learning

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• He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

  William Godwin

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.31

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Life, Book, Reading

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  Harper Lee

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Education, Book

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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