Good Book Quotes - Page 9

• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Fool

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• A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Book, Written

  Phyllis A. Whitney (1945). “The Silver Inkwell”

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• I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

  Angie Harmon

  Book, Curls, Couches

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• A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Silence, Paper

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

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• How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Writing, Years

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

  Justin Winsor

  Book, Power, Soul

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• The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly
  bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life,
  corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while
  when you are in church, or have just read a good book,
  BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

  Dav Pilkey

  Book, Boredom

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• A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

  David Almond

  Book, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Writing, Mediocre

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• If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those weeks in the spring of 1997 were when I came into myself as a writer. They feel like some of the best weeks of writing I’ll ever have. The discovery that I could write better about something as trivial as an ordinary family dinner than I could about the exploding prison population of the United States, and the corporatization of American life, and all the other things I’d been trying to do, was a real revelation.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Spring, Real, Book

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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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• Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.

  Dorothy Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (2008). “The duty of delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day”, Marquette Univ Pr

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• The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

  Wilkie Collins

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Periods, Distinction

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• A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Book, Anchors, Funny Drinking

  "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.

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• The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Book, Journey

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• I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

  Diane Setterfield

  Believe, Book, Important

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

  Jane Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Cooking

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Sex, Book, Sleep

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• A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Mysterious, Natural

  1850 Journal entry,16 Nov. In Bradford Torrey and F H Allen (eds) The Journals of Henry David Thoreau (1906).

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• The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Doe, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

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• God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

  Curtis Jackson

  Pain, Rap, Book

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