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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
Poul Anderson
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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
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Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes V. Jensen
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
Dejan Stojanovic
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Edward Dahlberg
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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
Henry Morton Stanley
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To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.
William Kingdon Clifford
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them.
Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.
'My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.
Wilfred Owen
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
Helen Hayes
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wisława Szymborska
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
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For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
Rumer Godden
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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I don't care for philosophers in books. They are always bores. A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
Joyce Cary
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You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
All the five books are chiefly concerned with timing. You must train sufficiently to appreciate all this.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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