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Books Quotes

The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read Picture Quote #1

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose Picture Quote #1

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food Picture Quote #1

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print Picture Quote #1

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us Picture Quote #1

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love Picture Quote #1

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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge Picture Quote #1

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you Picture Quote #1

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil Picture Quote #1

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books Picture Quote #1

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us Picture Quote #1

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read Picture Quote #1

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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low Picture Quote #1

The problem is the average person isn’t tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they don’t get it Picture Quote #1

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Picture Quote #1

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited Picture Quote #1

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own Picture Quote #1

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end Picture Quote #1

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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love Picture Quote #1

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality Picture Quote #1

He’d always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he’d also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn’t properly exist anymore Picture Quote #1

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves Picture Quote #1

Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it Picture Quote #1

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future Picture Quote #1

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A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date Picture Quote #1

Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort Picture Quote #1

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen Picture Quote #1

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one Picture Quote #1

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass Picture Quote #1

But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation Picture Quote #1

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The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read (Books Quotes) Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose (Books Quotes) Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food (Books Quotes) Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print (Books Quotes) We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us (Books Quotes) It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love (Books Quotes) It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge (Books Quotes) All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you (Books Quotes) Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil (Books Quotes) There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books (Books Quotes) Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us (Books Quotes) If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read (Books Quotes) In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low (Books Quotes) The problem is the average person isn’t tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they don’t get it (Books Quotes) Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them (Books Quotes) If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited (Books Quotes) There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own (Books Quotes) While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end (Books Quotes) Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love (Books Quotes) The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality (Books Quotes) He’d always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he’d also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn’t properly exist anymore (Books Quotes) I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves (Books Quotes) Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it (Books Quotes) Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future (Books Quotes) A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date (Books Quotes) Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort (Books Quotes) The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen (Books Quotes) Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one (Books Quotes) I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass (Books Quotes) But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation (Books Quotes)

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