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“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
John GreenAuthor
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“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
John Green
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. MartinNovelist
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
John GreenAuthor
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
John Green
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki MurakamiWriter
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
Nicholas SparksNovelist
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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
J.K. RowlingNovelist
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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
J.K. Rowling
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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J.K. RowlingNovelist
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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J.K. Rowling
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar WildePlaywright
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
Nicholas SparksNovelist
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“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
Jodi PicoultAuthor
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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
Jodi Picoult
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar WildePlaywright
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
Suzanne CollinsTelevision writer
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“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
Suzanne Collins
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“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
Jess C. ScottAuthor
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“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
Jess C. Scott
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“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
J.K. RowlingNovelist
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“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
J.K. Rowling
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni MorrisonNovelist
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison
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“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
Veronica RothNovelist
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“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
Veronica Roth
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Jane AustenNovelist
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
Jane Austen
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“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
Nicholas SparksNovelist
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“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by William Shakespeare
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
George R.R. MartinNovelist
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
George R.R. Martin
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“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
Suzanne CollinsTelevision writer
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“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
Suzanne Collins
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
William StyronNovelist
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
William Styron
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray BradburyAuthor
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
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“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
Sarah DessenWriter
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“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
Sarah Dessen
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“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
Suzanne CollinsTelevision writer
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“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
Suzanne Collins
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“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo CoelhoLyricist
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“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Gustave FlaubertNovelist
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Gustave Flaubert
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. TolkienWriter
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
Francis BaconFormer Lord Chancellor
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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
Francis Bacon
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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
George R.R. MartinNovelist
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“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
George R.R. Martin
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“Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
Charlaine HarrisAuthor
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“Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
Charlaine Harris
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius ErasmusTheologian
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard ShawPlaywright
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“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick DouglassOrator
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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
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“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson3rd U. S. President
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“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
C.S. LewisNovelist
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“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
C.S. Lewis
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Oscar WildePlaywright
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Oscar Wilde
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”
Jane AustenNovelist
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”
Jane Austen
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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
Alice HoffmanNovelist
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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
Alice Hoffman
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“If a book is well written, I always find it too short”
Jane AustenNovelist
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“If a book is well written, I always find it too short”
Jane Austen
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“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
Stephen KingAuthor
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“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
Stephen King
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph BrodskyPoet
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
Isaac AsimovAuthor
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
Isaac Asimov
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“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
Marie LuAuthor
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“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
Marie Lu
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“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
J.K. RowlingNovelist
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“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
J.K. Rowling
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“There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.”
Irwin ShawPlaywright
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“There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.”
Irwin Shaw
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
Mortimer J. AdlerPhilosopher
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
Mortimer J. Adler
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Anne TylerNovelist
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Anne Tyler
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“We live for books.”
Umberto EcoNovelist
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“We live for books.”
Umberto Eco
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“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark TwainWriter
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“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain
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“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
John WatersFilm director
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“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
John Waters
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“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
J.K. RowlingNovelist
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“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
J.K. Rowling
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar WildePlaywright
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde
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“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Jane AustenNovelist
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“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Jane Austen
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
Jeanette WintersonWriter
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
Jeanette Winterson
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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.”
Dave EggersWriter
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“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.”
Dave Eggers
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“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
Jerry SeinfeldComedian
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“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
Jerry Seinfeld
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
Maurice SendakIllustrator
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
Maurice Sendak
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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
Christopher PaoliniAuthor
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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
Christopher Paolini
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne FrankWriter
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Saul BellowWriter
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
Saul Bellow
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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis BorgesShort story writer
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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
Groucho MarxComedian
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“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx
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“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. TuchmanHistorian
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“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James BaldwinNovelist
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin
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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
Roald DahlNovelist
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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
Roald Dahl
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.”
Franz KafkaWriter
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.”
Franz Kafka
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“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz KafkaWriter
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssayist
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Eugene FieldWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Eugene Field
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
Eugene Field
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“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
Horace MannAmerican Politician
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“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
Horace Mann
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“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”
Stanislaw LemWriter
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“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”
Stanislaw Lem
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“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
Markus ZusakWriter
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“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
Markus Zusak
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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
Isabel AllendeWriter
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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
Isabel Allende
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“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
C.S. LewisNovelist
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“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
C.S. Lewis
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“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
Anthony PowellNovelist
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“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
Anthony Powell
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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
Guy de MaupassantWriter
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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
Guy de Maupassant
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“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
James BurkeAuthor
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“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
James Burke
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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
Ray BradburyAuthor
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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
Ray Bradbury
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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
Walter TevisNovelist
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Walter Tevis
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
Walter Tevis
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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
Mark TwainWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Mark Twain
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
Mark Twain
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“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
Lois LowryWriter
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“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
Lois Lowry
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“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
H.L. MenckenJournalist
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“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
H.L. Mencken
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry”
Emily DickinsonPoet
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry”
Emily Dickinson
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“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
Phyllis McGinleyAuthor
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“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
Phyllis McGinley
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“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
Terry PratchettAuthor
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“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
Terry Pratchett
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“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
Nicholson BakerNovelist
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“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
Nicholson Baker
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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
Joseph JoubertEssayist
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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
Joseph Joubert
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. ChestertonWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by G. K. Chesterton
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.”
A. A. Milne
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“Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.”
A. A. MilneAuthor
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by A. A. Milne
“Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.”
A. A. Milne
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.”
Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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“If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”
Alan Moore
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“My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.”
Alan Moore
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Albert Camus
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
Aldous HuxleyWriter
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“The proper study of mankind is books.”
Aldous Huxley
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark TwainWriter
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
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“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
Adolf HitlerGerman Politician
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“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
Adolf Hitler
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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
Bill GatesBusiness magnate
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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
Bill Gates
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