Books And Reading Quotes

• To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

  Jonathan Daniels

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

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• Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

  Ethan Coen

  Book, Reading, Cutting

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• We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Ice, Mind

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.121, Bantam

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• Beware of the person of one book.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• Once upon a time' lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Once Upon A Time, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Imagination

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

  Daniel Handler

  Educational, Book, Reading

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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  Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• A great book should leave you with many experiences.

  William Styron

  Book, Should, Inspirational Reading

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

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Reading

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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