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Alan Bennett
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without
breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.
Edward P. Morgan
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. Franz
Kafka
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still
thinking. Jerry Seinfield
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. Robert Aris Willmott
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted
at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle
of it. P. J. ORourke
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day youll die of a misprint.
Markus Herz
Books the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.
George Steiner
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. E.P. Whipple
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully
furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
mind. James Russell Lowell
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which
other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human
life. Jesse Lee Bennett
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination,
and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. Emilie Buchwald
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into
bouillon cubes. John LeCarre
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I
go in the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis
Borges
I was born with a reading list I will never finish. Maud Casey
Ive never known any trouble that an hours reading didnt assuage. Charles
de Secondat
If theres a book that you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then
you must write it. Toni Morrison
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think
what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
Im writing a book. Ive got the page numbers done. Steven Wright
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can
get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer J. Adler
It is what you read when you dont have to that determines what you will be
when you cant help it. Oscar Wilde
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a
battle. Sutton Elbert Griggs
My best friend is the man wholl get me a book I aint read. Abraham Lincoln
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. Thomas Helm
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my
library are books that other folks have lent me. Anatole France
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading,
or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest
and the happiest. J.A. Langford
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. Ann
Landers
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Harry S. Truman
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of
mankind. Ishmael Reed
Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us
everywhere. Hazel Rochman
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new
friend. Oliver Goldsmith
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor
defense. J.A. Langford
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
cant read. Mark Twain
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places youll go. Dr. Seuss
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
The wise man reads both books and life itself. Lin Yutang
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint
Augustine
There are many little ways to enlarge your childs world. Love of books is the
best of all. Jacqueline Kennedy
Theres so much more to a book than just the reading. Maurice Sendak
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books
than we do for chewing gum. Elbert Hubbard
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
When you sell a man a book you dont sell him just 12 ounces of paper and
ink and glue you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to
allow in more light. Vera Nazarian
You know youve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a
little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney