Books And Reading Quotes - Page 4

• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

  Anna Quindlen

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  James Bryce

  Life Lesson, Book, Reading

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Hero

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Reading, Land

  "There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

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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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• 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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• Books were my pass to personal freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Black History Month

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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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• 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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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.69, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, Reading

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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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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• I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Writing, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Reading, Library

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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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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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Wisdom, Fear, Book

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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