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• There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Film, No Point

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• You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, Keys

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• Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Might, Action

  "Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Book, Leader

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• When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Home, Views

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Great Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Book, Reading

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• There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.

  Jared Padalecki

  Love, Hero, Book

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• Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Soul, Inspired

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.114, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

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• Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Book, Mean

  "Lives of Northern Worthies".

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• A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

  Louis L'Amour

  Determination, Book, Ideas

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Book, Men, Race

  George Edward Woodberry (1910). “The Inspiration of Poetry”

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• Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

  Joan Erikson

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest. There’s a great book inside, with recipes, pie history, and plenty of inspiration for gathering your friends together to see who can make the best pie. Plus, ribbons! And scorecards! This would be a great party.

  Shauna James Ahern

  Fun, Party, Book

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• The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Nature, Book, Effort

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Book, Romantic Love

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

  Sivananda

  Book, Heart, Pages

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Great books conserve time.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Writing

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• All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Greatness, Boring

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, College, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

  Anne Enright

  Book, Winning, People

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Book, Taken, Science

  Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)

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