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• One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Asking, Kind

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2015

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• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

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• In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

  Booker T. Washington

  Book, People, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

  Jack Gantos

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!

  Wendy Mass

  Book, Wish, Firsts

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• Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

  Clive Barker

  Book, Wine, Hypocrite

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• Sad stories make good books

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Stories, Sad Story

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.70, A&C Black

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• In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Literature, Theory

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.24, Random House

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• A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Book, Heart

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• Good books are for consideration after, too.

  Stephen King

  Book, Consideration

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Long

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• With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Writing, Companion

  "Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think". Book by Charles Caleb Colton, 1820.

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• Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

  Michele Jaffe

  Girl, Book, Reading

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• The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

  Paul Horgan

  Book, Writing, Important

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• And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Eye, Men

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• The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

  George Orwell

  Book, Facts, Praise

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Book, Mean

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.32, Dell

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• I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Book, Thinking, Forever

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• There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Two, Democracy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Orange

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• The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Eye, Literature

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• A good book written for children can be read by adults

  Norton Juster

  Children, Book, Adults

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• I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.

  Vin Scully

  Book, Cherish, Moments

  "Conversation With My Hero: Broadcaster Vin Scully". Interview with Michael Connelly, parade.com. October 18, 2009.

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• I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Reading, Night

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