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But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wander...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

It tells him what to say. I know it sounds ridiculous,” muttered Hugh.“How can a book tell a man wha...

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Terry PratchettThe Color of Magic

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It ...

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Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-...

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a boo...

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It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the e...

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My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...

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Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' an...

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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...

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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You...

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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

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the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

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Umberto EcoThis is Not the End of the Book

a book is a box of words until you open it.

A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you ...

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I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feeling...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and ...

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but ev...

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...

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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blo...

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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative the...

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...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

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I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the sp...

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I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been crit...

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get o...

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A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion,...

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William GodwinFleetwood or the New Man of Feeling

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU...

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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selectio...

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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, tak...

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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to creat...

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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, ...

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A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we h...

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Andre DubusMeditations from a Movable Chair

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matte...

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No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he s...

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I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking a...

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Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...

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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, ...

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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. Ho...

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody...

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Br...

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I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't thin...

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I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry...

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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dre...

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And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the bl...

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Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

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It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

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Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

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I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What bet...

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It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be...

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From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent...

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The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

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Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity Shop

Mr Pickwick awoke the next morning, there was not a symptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, a...

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A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data th...

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Charles FortThe Book of the Damned

That's what this country needs -- more books!

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotte...

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There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If i...

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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to m...

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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...

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President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and ge...

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I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog exce...

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School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or ...

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The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's...

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It's a very good historical book about history.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover y...

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Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

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Daniel KeyesFlowers for Algernon

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I ...

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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all ...

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As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking...

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When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

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Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ...

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