Quotes and sayings about tag  books

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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• 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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• Books

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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• Books

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