Quotes and sayings about tag  books

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

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• Books

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

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• Books

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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• Inspirational

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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• Books

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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• Books

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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• Books

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

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• Inspirational

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

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• Knowledge

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

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• Books

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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• Writing

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

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The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

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• Books

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

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• Writing

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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• Humor

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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• Truth

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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• Education

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

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• Books

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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• Wisdom

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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• Books

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

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• Books

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

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• Humor

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

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• Books

As always, one of her books was next to her.

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• Books

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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• Books

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

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• Books

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

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• Books

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

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• Books

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

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