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Books Quotes

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

Our lives change in two ways : through the people we meet and the books we read Picture Quote #1

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people Picture Quote #1

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books 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 substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for Picture Quote #1

There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken 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

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I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas 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

I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading 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

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

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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

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I’m a sport; I go along Picture Quote #1

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

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books Picture Quote #1

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Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh Picture Quote #1

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of them Picture Quote #1

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

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons Picture Quote #1

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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) Our lives change in two ways : through the people we meet and the books we read (Books Quotes) I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people (Books Quotes) If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books (Books Quotes) In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low (Books Quotes) The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for (Books Quotes) There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken (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) I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas (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) I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading (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) They want a lip print for their autograph books. I’m a sport; I go along (Books Quotes) Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future (Books Quotes) Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books (Books Quotes) Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh (Books Quotes) The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of them (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) But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons (Books Quotes)

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