Great Book Quotes - Page 2

• I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Interest

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• The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Generosity, Forever

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• There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Awful, World

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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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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• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Wentworth Miller

  Inspirational, Book, Creativity

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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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• Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Time, Moving, Book

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• This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, Book, Reading

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Life Changing, Book, Heart

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan

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• The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

  Robertson Davies

  Spiritual, Reading, Book

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.

  Ruskin Bond

  Book, Special People, Joy

  Ruskin Bond (2014). “Uncles, Aunts and Elephants: A Ruskin Bond Treasury”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

  Shimon Peres

  Wise, Morning, Book

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• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Years, Advice

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1

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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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• Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, May

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, April, Cold

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Rights, White

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• Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

  Ben Stein

  Believe, Book, Legends

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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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• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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