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[Quote No.33720] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures." - Anthony Trollope

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[Quote No.33866] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman

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[Quote No.34344] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing [and reading] - one can impersonate so many people." - Katherine Mansfield

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[Quote No.34456] Need Area: Fun > Books
"We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." - John Fowles

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[Quote No.34460] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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[Quote No.34614] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman." - Nancy Banks Smith

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[Quote No.34615] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." - Aristotle

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[Quote No.34949] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them!" - Joseph Brodsky

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[Quote No.35036] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Time is a river... and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following." - unknown
This is the preface to the Masonic Bible, and is the introduction to a sermon, The Master Book, written by Joseph Fort Newton.
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[Quote No.35106] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry." - Gaston Bachelard

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[Quote No.35148] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time." - Louis L'Amour
Famous Us author. Quote from his autobiography, 'The Education of a Wandering Man'.
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[Quote No.35167] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away..." - Emily Dickinson

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[Quote No.36299] Need Area: Fun > Books
"You have to fall in love with hanging around words [and their unmatched power to fire your imagination and powers of free association]." - John Ciardi
[1916 - 1986], poet and translator.
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[Quote No.36329] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Good writing is like a windowpane [which is clear or magnifies what is in front of or within the author]. " - George Orwell
George Orwell [1903 – 1950], was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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[Quote No.36354] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature." - George Orwell
[1903 – 1950], George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the satirical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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[Quote No.36356] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already [and have perhaps forgotten or couldn't express as well]." - George Orwell
[1903 – 1950], George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, who was an English author and journalist. His work is known for its keen intelligence and wit, profound awareness of social injustice, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism. He is best known for the satirical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (published in 1949) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author.
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[Quote No.36843] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. " - Vicesimus Knox

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[Quote No.36849] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." - John Milton
(1608 - 1674), English poet.
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[Quote No.36852] Need Area: Fun > Books
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - George Gordon Byron
(1788 – 1824), English poet.
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[Quote No.36855] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind!" - Khalil Gibran
(1883 – 1931), Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer.
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[Quote No.36856] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803- 1882), American lecturer, essayist and poet.
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[Quote No.36857] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander." - Walter Savage Landor
(1775 – 1864), Poet and prose writer.
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[Quote No.36957] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved." - Richard C. Trench
(1807-1886), poet.
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[Quote No.37182] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature." - Jean Cocteau
(1889-1963), author and painter.
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[Quote No.37305] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing... Reading was like a drug... The novels created moods in which I lived for days." - Richard Wright

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[Quote No.37306] Need Area: Fun > Books
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India." - Edward Gibbon

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[Quote No.37307] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company. " - Andre Gide

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[Quote No.37308] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. " - W. Somerset Maugham

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[Quote No.37309] Need Area: Fun > Books
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." - Mary Wortley Montagu

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[Quote No.37310] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage." - Charles de Montesquieu

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[Quote No.37342] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life." - Max Frisch

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[Quote No.37451] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement." - Doris Lessing

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[Quote No.37452] Need Area: Fun > Books
"And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle." - Kurt Vonnegut
(1922 - 2007)
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[Quote No.37453] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading was like a drug... The novels created moods in which I lived for days." - Richard Wright
(1908 - 1960)
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[Quote No.37682] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...literature is a drug." - George Borrow

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[Quote No.37683] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Biography is history seen through the prism of a person." - Louis Fischer

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[Quote No.37732] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Good prose is like a window pane." - George Orwell
(1903-1950), writer.
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[Quote No.37835] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If ... I can by any lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain." - Washington Irving
(1783 - 1859), writer
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[Quote No.37836] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Tis the reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[Quote No.37837] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...a story has as many versions as it has readers." - John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968), author
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[Quote No.38267] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Study has been my sovereign remedy against the worries of life. I have never had a care that an hour's reading could not dispel." - Montesquieu
[1689 - 1755]
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[Quote No.38416] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme." - Stephane Mallarme

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[Quote No.38448] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time." - John Ruskin

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[Quote No.38503] Need Area: Fun > Books
"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." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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[Quote No.38673] Need Area: Fun > Books
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith

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[Quote No.39307] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip." - Leon Edel

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[Quote No.39633] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There's stories and there's stories...the ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on and the giving only makes you feel better. The stories are just stories, they make one laugh or cry - but if they have any worth, they carry within them a deeper resonance that remains long after the final page is turned...or the storyteller has come to the end of her tale." - Charles de Lint

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[Quote No.39716] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it." - Norman Cousins

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[Quote No.40022] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures." - Franz Grillparzer
(1791–1872), Austrian author.
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