Quotes and sayings about tag  books

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

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Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

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We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

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Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

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Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

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It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

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Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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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.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

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Books are the most tolerant of friends.

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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

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So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

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