Reading Books Quotes - Page 2

• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Library

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• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Friendship

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

  J. K. Rowling

  Happiness, Happy, Book

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Education, Book, Reading

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• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Children, Book, Reading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Black History Month

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• My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

  Edward Gibbon

  Love, Book, Reading

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• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

  Aleister Crowley

  Reading, Discipline, Mind

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 23, 1969.

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• Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Reading, Made, Duty

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

  Dawn Addams

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

  Jim Trelease

  Basketball, Education, Children

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Reading

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• The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 27, 2016

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