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[Quote No.54644] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The stories we love best do live in us forever.
" - J.K. Rowling
From the 2011 London premiere of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2'.
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[Quote No.54698] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A man's mind is known by the company it keeps!!" - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.54707] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback." - John Updike
(1932-2009), writer.
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[Quote No.54781] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read." - Tom Clancy
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[Quote No.54863] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Words are restless bundles of energy ever ready to explode in our minds like bombs, to blossom in our minds like flowers." - Michael Lydon
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[Quote No.54864] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again." - Florence Littauer
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[Quote No.54865] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books...so many blinding lights...splashing across the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each of which was alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light." - Dylan Thomas
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[Quote No.54875] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read good books is like holding a conversation with the most eminent minds of past centuries and, moreover, a studied conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts." - Rene Descartes
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[Quote No.54876] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A great book is the world's most effective mode of transportation." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.54877] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There are books . . . which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.54879] Need Area: Fun > Books
"In books I have travelled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.54880] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words." - Amy Lowell
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[Quote No.54881] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Many readers judge the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings -- as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[Quote No.54895] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The meaning of a poem is the outcome of a dialogue between the words on the page and the particular person who happens to be reading it. The interpretation can only be false if the reader does not know the contemporary meaning of the words." - W.H. Auden
(1907-1973), poet
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[Quote No.54926] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books are the mirrors of the soul." - Virginia Woolf
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[Quote No.54987] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading." - William Zinsser
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[Quote No.55034] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind." - Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931), poet and artist
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[Quote No.55035] Need Area: Fun > Books
"No two persons ever read the same book." - Edmund Wilson
(1895-1972), critic.
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[Quote No.55037] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue -- you sell him a whole new life." - Christopher Morley
(1890-1957), writer
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[Quote No.55040] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A novel is a machine for simulating experience, a ‘life simulator’ and – like its flight equivalent – it allows us safely to experience what it might – in real life – take us years and great danger to go through. Unaided, we are puny in our powers of empathy and comprehension, isolated from the inner lives of others, limited in our experiences, short of time, and able to encounter only a tiny portion of the world first hand. Fiction extends our range – it takes us inside the intimate consciousness of strangers, it lets us sit in on experiences that would be terrifying or reckless in reality; it lends us more lives than we have been given.
There are three ways in particular in which novels deliver their assistance:
[1] As cautionary tales:
They give us early warnings. They alert us to dangers that we’re not adept at recognising: where envy might lead us, what indifference can do to a relationship, where lust can drive us… They trace the links between apparently minor errors of personality and the monumental catastrophes they can unleash, in the hope that by showing us the pitfalls, our own tendencies to disaster and folly may be curbed.
[2] As maps of progress:
Fiction provides models of development, demonstrations of triumph over difficulties, case studies in maturation and the acquisition of wisdom. We are carefully taken through ways in which certain people have learned, perhaps over many years and with much pain, how to cope with problems which are, in some ways, also our own.
[3] As exhortations:
There are many good things which we may have not known close-up but which we would benefit from experiencing – and which fiction can create for us. It can show us a couple who have understood how to resolve their difficulties with grace and humour, a father who can be at once authoritative and kind; a politician who has overcome vanity and tribal interests. It’s not simply that we need to know there are such people at large. It’s that by spending time in their company, the more admirable sides of human nature have an opportunity to rub off on us a little." - thephilosophersmail.com
[http://thephilosophersmail.com/relationships/how-love-stories-ruin-our-love-lives/ ]
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[Quote No.55056] Need Area: Fun > Books
"My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant." - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.55064] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.
" - Nora Ephron
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[Quote No.55075] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust
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[Quote No.55082] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being." - Clifton Fadiman
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[Quote No.55124] Need Area: Fun > Books
"What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!" - Thomas Mann
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[Quote No.55225] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in 'you' than there was before." - Clifton Fadiman
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[Quote No.55239] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice." - Cheryl Strayed
Author of 'Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'.
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[Quote No.55281] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house [i.e. be distracted from my fears about my alcoholic, violent father] when I was a kid." - Dean Koontz
Highly famous and successful author who has stated in interviews that he had an 'alcoholic, violent father'. Fourteen of his books have made it to the Number One position on the New York Times bestseller list. His works have sold nearly 500 million copies and have been translated into nearly 40 languages.
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[Quote No.55349] Need Area: Fun > Books
"In a corner of his desk, [US President Abraham] Lincoln kept a copy of the latest humorous work; and it was frequently his habit, when fatigued, annoyed, or depressed, to take this up, and read a chapter with great relief!" - Orison Swett Marden
Quote from his book, 'Cheerfulness as a Life Power', published in 1899.
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[Quote No.55405] Need Area: Fun > Books
"With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends - books - it's because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: 'What did they think of us?' - 'Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?' - 'Did they like us?' - nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else." - Marcel Proust
In his 1905 essay 'On Reading'.
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[Quote No.55407] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow..." - William Shakespeare
From his play, 'Titus Andronicus'.
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[Quote No.55501] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Those of us who read because we love it more than anything ... feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.55543] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is a way of achieving companionship without giving up solitude." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.55602] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment [fantasy] to turn to." - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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[Quote No.55761] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch." - Coco Chanel
(1883 - 1971)
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[Quote No.55864] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading brings us unknown friends.
" - Honore de Balzac
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[Quote No.56008] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...poems [quotes, proverbs, etc.,] are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." - Mary Oliver
American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as 'far and away, this country's best-selling poet'. This is a quote from her book, 'A Poetry Handbook', published 1994.
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[Quote No.56101] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries!" - A. C. Grayling
Philosopher.
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[Quote No.56116] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Good writing [like good art] does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." - Malcolm Gladwell
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[Quote No.56124] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
" - E. L. Doctorow
(1931 - 2015)
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[Quote No.56175] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." - Ezra Pound
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[Quote No.56293] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books [quotes, maxims, proverbs, etc]... There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56477] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Knowledge sets us free... A great library is freedom... Plunging into the ocean of words, roaming in the broad fields of the mind, climbing the mountains of the imagination... that was my freedom, that was my joy. And it still is.
" - Ursula K. Le Guin
Writer. Quote from her book, 'The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination'.
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[Quote No.56748] Need Area: Fun > Books
"We are not transparent to ourselves. We have intuitions, suspicions, hunches, vague musings, and strangely mixed emotions, all of which resist simple definition. We have moods, but we don't really know them. Then, from time to time, we encounter works of art [books, quotes, maxims, etc] that seem to latch on to something we have felt but never recognized clearly before. Alexander Pope identified a central function of poetry as taking thoughts we experience half-formed and giving them clear expression: 'what was often thought, but ne'er so well expressed.' In other words, a fugitive and elusive part of our own thinking, our own experience, is taken up, edited, and returned to us better than it was before, so that we feel, at last, that we know ourselves more clearly." - Alain de Botton and John Armstrong
Alain de Botton is a philosopher and John Armstrong is an art historian. Quote from their book, 'Art as Therapy'. [https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/10/25/art-as-therapy-alain-de-botton-john-armstrong/ ]
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[Quote No.56838] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Biography broadens the vision and allows us to live a thousand lives in one!!" - Elbert Hubbard
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[Quote No.56874] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy." - Charlaine Harris
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[Quote No.56892] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books have been my greatest comfort..." - Louisa May Alcott
(1832 - 1888)
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[Quote No.56897] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." - Madeleine L'Engle
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[Quote No.56940] Need Area: Fun > Books
"...I can bear anything as long as there are books." - Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian author has been writing books since she was 13. Her 2011 fantasy, 'Among Others', won the Hugo and the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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[Quote No.56970] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - David Foster Wallace
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