Good Book Quotes - Page 15

• I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

  Hugo Chavez

  Book, Stills, Ifs

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• Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Book, Inspire, Life Is

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1955). “WAY TO HAPPY LIVING”

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• One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Life Is Short, Order

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Film, Ifs

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

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• An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Love, Book, Reading

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• I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Educational, Book, Library

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

  John Green

  Book, Secret, Algorithms

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• You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots to stay home tonite and read a good book!!!!!!!!!!

  James Ellroy

  Book, Home, Groovy

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• What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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• Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Permit

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Believe, Book, Bed

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• What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspiration, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

  George Plimpton

  Book, Cycling, Giving

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• There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Morning, Book, Hot

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• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

  John Green

  Book, Algorithms, Booksellers

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• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• A good book is an education of the heart.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Heart

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• There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Matter, Reader

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• Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

  John Ruskin

  Sweet, Book, Honey

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Book, Unreachable

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• The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Inspirational, Book, Mark

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• But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Support, Vandalism

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• "The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Book, Writing, Eye

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