books

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
977f03c	The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.	books classic humor	Jane Austen
8e41a34	Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.	dragons fairy-tales inspirational paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton books	Neil Gaiman
8aedea1	Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.	books dogs friends humor	Groucho Marx
715ed93	You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.	books inspirational reading tea	C.S. Lewis
1d7bdbc	What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.	books literature reading writing	J.D. Salinger
04dde88	Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.	books inspirational life reading	Gustave Flaubert
a801e29	And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.	books politics	Kurt Vonnegut
fb8bb86	When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.	books inspirational	Margaret Walker
1a7f5f3	I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.	inspirational on-writing reading books	Robert Louis Stevenson
a333fa8	Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.	inspirational reading books	Louis L'Amour
2b2717c	We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence	books inspirational	Philip Pullman
6c21eba	Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.	books	C.S. Lewis
c44e0ed	Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.	books inspirational library	Maya Angelou
982b4df	Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.	books fiction read reading stories story	Hilary Mantel
3707f62	To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.	books escape good-habits life pleasure reading refuge	W. Somerset Maugham
375ed2e	Books were safer than other people anyway.	book-quotes books bookworms love-for-books	Neil Gaiman
c003b02	Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.	books fiction inspirational on-fiction writing	John Cheever
9ebcee6	People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.	books inspirational literacy religious	Malcolm X
c749226	The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.	book-lovers books readers reading	Patricia A. McKillip
5f8457e	Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.	books fame independent-thought judgment opinions pg-84 reading senator-pococurante taste	Voltaire
c30924c	There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.	ayn-rand books children-s-literature education fantasy jrr-tolkien life-changing lord-of-the-rings reading real-world	John Rogers
65e4482	Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.	books music	Daniel Keyes
21a51b9	"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."	books coming-of-age lewis-carroll	Lewis Carroll
ab12b03	I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five...I had a shutting-off feeling...that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .	awareness bloom book books complete finished flowers slaughterhouse-five writing	Kurt Vonnegut
76356db	When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.	inspirational life stargirl tears books	Jerry Spinelli
abdc7e5	"When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.	beauty belief book books children-s-books offense philip-pullman value wisdom young-adult	Philip Pullman
92258b9	I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.	beauty books chaos life music painting writing	W. Somerset Maugham
a115307	Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.	books fiction on-fiction	John Green
da7c425	We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.	books burial generations grave history history-repeating-itself lonely remember war winning	Ray Bradbury
7faffe1	There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.	books companionship inspirational	Philip Pullman
8402dfd	Nobody steals books but your friends.	friendship inspirational irony stealing books	Roger Zelazny
ba2c86e	Quiet people have the loudest minds.	authors books dark horror inspirational inspiring-quotes minds quotes reading steven-king writers	Stephen King
cccd81e	"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.	beauty belief book books children-s-books offense paraphrased philip-pullman plot value wisdom young-adult	philip pullman
1c5a9b6	Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.	adventure advice book books covers discovery inspirational reader readers	David Almond
9513286	What an author doesn't know could fill a book.	books knowledge	Holly Black
55544d3	Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.	banned-books-week books censorship freedom-to-read ideas intellectual-freedom	Laurie Halse Anderson
f172b07	I wanted to live among books.	books	Alberto Manguel
4214a24	Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.	books inspirational reading	Neil Gaiman
2a9d78f	A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.	books language life reading words	Henry David Thoreau
efa31d2	"I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it.	anxiety-disorder being-happy books breath breathing bus december deep depression emotions feelings friendship gratitude growing-up happy heal healing heart joy learn learning letters life-quotes lonely lovely mental-health mental-wellness mindfulness minimalism moment night panic panic-attacks plan prose recovery regret sad sadness self-care sky trying well worries worrying	Charlotte Eriksson
bfcd699	An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.	books	J.R. Ward
9e81523	I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.	books literature	J.R.R. Tolkien
ebc08f0	To read is to empower	books inspirational	Jane Evershed
d9be0ed	Books fall open, you fall in	books inspirational reading-books	David McCord
dfe8e9e	I have never been able to resist a book about books.	books reading	Anne Fadiman
df699cf	"Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."	books endings frodo happy-endings lotr sam-gamgee writing	J.R.R. Tolkien
da71255	Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.	books inspirational	Richard Denney
5e32593	Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.	books immortality reader reading rebirth	Alberto Manguel
c59f917	Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.	books inspirational reading teens	Jackson Pearce
41a93ce	"My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."	books jhumpa-lahiri opportunity the-namesake travel	Jhumpa Lahiri
e5a4be5	Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.	books reading stories story	Anne Fadiman
c2c5ec4	The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.	books inspirational read	Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
2d94a2b	Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell	authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry	Oprah Winfrey
8e1b8dd	"Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa" --	books bookworms cassandra-clare clockwork-angel fandom fandom-talk literarature poetry tessa-gray the-clockwork-angel the-infernal-devices tid will-herondale william-herondale	Cassandra Clare
1dc5822	Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?	books face faces pages search shop shops window windows	Virginia Woolf
a5378e1	Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.	art books	Yann Martel
331ffaa	The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.	books experience feelings library mood read reading smell	Betty Smith
75a2735	My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.	books read reading	Alberto Manguel
3f0c2fe	Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.	books reader reading society	Alberto Manguel
c580277	"Still. Four words. And I didn't realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children's area, what would it be? Thanks! Lynn I pondered a bit. I'd said a lot about books and kids' reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me, and this is what I wrote: I'm not sure I'd put a quote up, if it was me, and I had a library wall to deface. I think I'd just remind people of the power of stories, and why they exist in the first place. I'd put up the four words that anyone telling a story wants to hear. The ones that show that it's working, and that pages will be turned: "... and then w"	book book-lover books	Neil Gaiman
acea334	This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.	books	Jodi Picoult
d3d7db6	Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.	books library reading	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
859696d	Un libro leido a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.	book books español lectura leer libro libros love reading spanish	David Mitchell
cc2f1ee	Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.	books bookstores used-books	Virginia Woolf
1c4e7f4	"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
2c34714	In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.	books	Anne Fadiman
a6f8360	I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place. This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now. Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library? If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill. You, dear reader, I am sure cannot what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned. For surely such things will never happen in the Future? Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ... And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.	books reading writing	Cressida Cowell
6a0c138	There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.	book-lovers book-quotes books boys love-for-books	Neil Gaiman
84d064b	Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.	books readers reading	Alberto Manguel
7c9313e	And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-	big-head-xd books	Rick Riordan
db9de52	That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.	book books friends friendship fun funny gossip-girl happy knowledge life love quote quotes	Cecily von Ziegesar
cdd9695	Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.	books reading titles	Alberto Manguel
3b3a6a9	..reading a book doesn't mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.	book books how-to occupy occupy-wall-street reading	Noam Chomsky
efbf7c7	I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.	books library	Laurie R. King
df1c761	People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.	books brain hijack songs	Douglas Coupland
12f4357	Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.	book-reading books feel lived lives reading vicarious	V.C. Andrews
fcc9e61	He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.	book-quotes books love-of-books love-of-reading reader reading	Victor Hugo
c600499	"Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
5f3fca0	The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.	books life morality youth	Haruki Murakami
c68c000	Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.	books reader reading	Paul Theroux
dc8af8d	One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.	books culture	Alberto Manguel
42717eb	Barack intrigued me. He was not like anyone I'd dated before, mainly because he seemed so secure. He was openly affectionate. He told me I was beautiful. He made me feel good. To me, he was sort of like a unicorn--unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal. He never talked about material things, like buying a house or a car or even new shoes. His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. He read late into the night, often long after I'd fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. He read several newspapers daily, cover to cover. He kept tabs on the latest book reviews, the American League standings, and what the South Side aldermen were up to. He could speak with equal passion about the Polish elections and which movies Roger Ebert had panned and why.	books reading	Michelle Obama
023979d	As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.	books	Miguel Serrano
f38d5b9	He whom the gods love dies young.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Menander
c6bfde6	Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.	books readers reading subtlety	Carol Shields
f5071d6	Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.	books history literature reading time words	Julian Barnes
92f7996	There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.	books death hiroshima japan ways-to-die world-war-ii wwii	John Hersey
582a0a4	How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!	bombs books cave classism forgotten fun hate history history-repeating-itself ignorance mistakes poor rich starving uncaring war	Ray Bradbury
8ce7d9e	It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.	banning book-burning books censorship library	Alberto Manguel
cb8c66c	Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
982b27f	Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.	book books jesus john record	Anonymous
5afcd95	I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.	being-a-reader biblioholism bookishness books learning reader reading	Anthony Powell
3f58d47	You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
fb22702	I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?	books dark gavriel holly-black paranormal-romance tana tana-bach teens the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
004f8da	In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.	books censorship freedom	Judy Blume
43e891a	We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.	books	Umberto Eco
5c15018	All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.	books yellow	Markus Zusak
d6138d1	The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
b6301ed	When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.	books books-and-authors books-and-reading metamorphosis perception published-books publishing reading writing	Salman Rushdie
c453d6f	It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.	aemon-targaryen books	George R.R. Martin
94aa9ca	Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
4508358	Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.	books reading	Doris Lessing
ee16586	You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
0235963	The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
385e756	Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
ac897e9	I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.	books creativity determination dreams endurance famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books genius jack-kerouac language literary-inspiration literature nanowrimo national-poetry-month prolific-authors the-writing-life words writers writers-and-writing	Aberjhani
056c480	Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?	books fellowship-of-the-ring tolkien	J.R.R. Tolkien
4e943cd	To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.	book-stores books london reading	Edward Gibbon
a8909b7	When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive	book-quotes books	Anaïs Nin
f27c84d	Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.	books	Dodie Smith
68e3370	You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
7aec95b	The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
7a805e4	There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.	books writers	Ian McEwan
ceccb87	I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
82d3568	"Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"	beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
1f8da6a	On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.	books home judge oath rain read snow snuggle	Bill Watterson
69cd6c9	When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
572938c	Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men	authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry	Kerry E. Wagner
5a623d9	I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.	books	Henry Miller
c8be534	What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
4e88e97	And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
f4f1474	And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.	anthony-burgess book-quotes books	Anthony Burgess
bc4c519	People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.	bad-luck beliefs books chris-prentiss fortunate fortune good-luck great-fortune inspiration inspire life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes trust trustworthy	Chris Prentiss
eb2195e	Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been binding its books for sometime.	books	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
fee373b	"Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel"	beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
f5847f5	I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
138f33c	You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.	book-quotes books	Anaïs Nin
fa228bc	School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic--I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.	books read reading	Craig Ferguson
0ef2444	You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
1fe5243	Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged	authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry	Kerry E. Wagner
38d6d5f	A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged	authors best-quote-ever book-clubs books bookstores encouragement face-book-quotes inspirational-quotes kerry-e-wagner oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote perspectives quotes steve-harvey twitter-quotes tyler-perry	Kerry E. Wagner
ee2f1d5	We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.	books growth literature meaning reading words	Vladimir Nabokov
e63af64	In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.	books pages secret world	Alberto Manguel
8e4ecc6	"Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke.	books copyright fanfiction funny geek ghost grave house imagine metaphor pervy respect sherlock vandalism	Rebecca McNutt
b74760f	"Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe."	books humor random things-fall-apart	Chinua Achebe
8086bf3	Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been.	books reading	Mary Stewart Atwell
42ea1d6	"Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
4a246b5	Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.	books dark holly-black monstrous pearl pearl-bach tana tana-bach tana-s-mother terror the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown wonderfully-awful	Holly Black
2e1b39a	"Let me alone," said Mildred "Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!"	books bothered savage talking thinking	Ray Bradbury
de2bd14	We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.	books dreams heroes imagination reading	Peter S. Beagle
ad7788f	With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?	books breach bright bullying burning conform constitution cowardice creativity critics different dread education equality examiners fliers free grabbers happiness image imagination imaginative-creators intellectual intelligence judge judgment jumpers knowers mind moutains racers rights runners school snatchers swimmers target tinkerers torture unfamiliar weapons	Ray Bradbury
fe1b286	Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?	alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bible bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri books burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes discoveries egypt euclid experiments fiction franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani goethe gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics india inspiration intelligence inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johann-wolfgang-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz libraries light luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics poets progress rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller science shakespeare songs the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation tragedy trevethick volta watt william-shakespeare writer Æschylus	Robert G. Ingersoll
7310826	His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
6ffb76b	In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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Neil Gaiman

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

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Groucho Marx

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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C.S. Lewis

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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

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J.D. Salinger

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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Gustave Flaubert

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And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

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Margaret Walker

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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Louis L'Amour

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We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence

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Philip Pullman

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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C.S. Lewis

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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Maya Angelou

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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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Hilary Mantel

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Books were safer than other people anyway.

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Neil Gaiman

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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

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John Cheever

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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

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Malcolm X

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The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

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Patricia A. McKillip

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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Voltaire

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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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John Rogers

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

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Daniel Keyes

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"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."

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Lewis Carroll

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I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn't have to write at all anymore if I didn't want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don't know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five...I had a shutting-off feeling...that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

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Kurt Vonnegut

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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

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Jerry Spinelli

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"When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.

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Philip Pullman

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

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John Green

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We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.

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Ray Bradbury

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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

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Philip Pullman

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Nobody steals books but your friends.

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Roger Zelazny

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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Stephen King

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"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.

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philip pullman

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Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

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David Almond

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What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

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Holly Black

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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

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Laurie Halse Anderson

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I wanted to live among books.

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Alberto Manguel

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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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Neil Gaiman

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

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Henry David Thoreau

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"I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it.

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Charlotte Eriksson

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An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

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J.R. Ward

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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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To read is to empower

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Jane Evershed

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Books fall open, you fall in

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David McCord

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I have never been able to resist a book about books.

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Anne Fadiman

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"Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

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Richard Denney

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Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

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Alberto Manguel

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Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

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Jackson Pearce

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"My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

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Anne Fadiman

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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Oprah Winfrey

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"Will grinned. "Some of these books are dangerous," he said. "It's wise to be careful.""One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.""I'm not sure a book has ever changed me," said Will. "Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep--""Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry," said Tessa" --

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Cassandra Clare

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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Virginia Woolf

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

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Yann Martel

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The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.

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Betty Smith

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My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

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Alberto Manguel

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Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

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Alberto Manguel

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"Still. Four words. And I didn't realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear Neil, If you could choose a quote - either by you or another author - to be inscribed on the wall of a public library children's area, what would it be? Thanks! Lynn I pondered a bit. I'd said a lot about books and kids' reading over the years, and other people had said things pithier and wiser than I ever could. And then it hit me, and this is what I wrote: I'm not sure I'd put a quote up, if it was me, and I had a library wall to deface. I think I'd just remind people of the power of stories, and why they exist in the first place. I'd put up the four words that anyone telling a story wants to hear. The ones that show that it's working, and that pages will be turned: "... and then w"

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Neil Gaiman

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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

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Jodi Picoult

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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Un libro leido a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.

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David Mitchell

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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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Virginia Woolf

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"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."

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Holly Black

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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

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Anne Fadiman

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I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place. This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now. Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library? If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill. You, dear reader, I am sure cannot what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned. For surely such things will never happen in the Future? Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ... And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.

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Cressida Cowell

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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

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Neil Gaiman

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Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

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Alberto Manguel

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And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

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Rick Riordan

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That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

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Cecily von Ziegesar

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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

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Alberto Manguel

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..reading a book doesn't mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

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Noam Chomsky

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I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

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Laurie R. King

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People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.

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Douglas Coupland

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Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

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V.C. Andrews

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He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

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Victor Hugo

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"Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"

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Holly Black

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

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Haruki Murakami

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Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

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Paul Theroux

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One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

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Alberto Manguel

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Barack intrigued me. He was not like anyone I'd dated before, mainly because he seemed so secure. He was openly affectionate. He told me I was beautiful. He made me feel good. To me, he was sort of like a unicorn--unusual to the point of seeming almost unreal. He never talked about material things, like buying a house or a car or even new shoes. His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind. He read late into the night, often long after I'd fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. He read several newspapers daily, cover to cover. He kept tabs on the latest book reviews, the American League standings, and what the South Side aldermen were up to. He could speak with equal passion about the Polish elections and which movies Roger Ebert had panned and why.

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Michelle Obama

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As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

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Miguel Serrano

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He whom the gods love dies young.

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Menander

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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

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Carol Shields

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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

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Julian Barnes

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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

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John Hersey

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How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!

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Ray Bradbury

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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

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Alberto Manguel

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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

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Holly Black

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Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

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Anonymous

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I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

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Anthony Powell

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You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

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Anthony Burgess

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I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

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Holly Black

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In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

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Judy Blume

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We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

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Umberto Eco

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All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

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Markus Zusak

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The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.

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Anthony Burgess

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When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.

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Salman Rushdie

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It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.

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George R.R. Martin

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Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

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Anthony Burgess

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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

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Doris Lessing

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You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

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Anthony Burgess

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The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?

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Anthony Burgess

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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

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Holly Black

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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

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Aberjhani

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Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

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Edward Gibbon

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When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

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Anaïs Nin

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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

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Dodie Smith

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You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.

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Anthony Burgess

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The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.

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Anthony Burgess

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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

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Ian McEwan

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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

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Holly Black

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"Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"

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Holly Black

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On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

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Bill Watterson

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When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.

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Anthony Burgess

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Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

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Kerry E. Wagner

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I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.

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Henry Miller

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What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

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Anthony Burgess

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And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.

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Anthony Burgess

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And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.

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Anthony Burgess

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People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

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Chris Prentiss

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Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over centuries naturally, but they don't take care of their books and toss them around. Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation. Nowhere in Russia has that stage been reached. Europe has been binding its books for sometime.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel"

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Holly Black

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I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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Holly Black

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You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

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Anaïs Nin

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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 I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic--I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

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Craig Ferguson

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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

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Holly Black

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Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

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Kerry E. Wagner

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A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

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Kerry E. Wagner

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We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ourselves just a little higher than we generally are in order to sample the rarest and ripest fruit of art which human thought has to offer.

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Vladimir Nabokov

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In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

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Alberto Manguel

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"Imagine for a moment that you are the proud owner of a large house which you have spent years of your life painting and decorating and filling with everything you love. It's your home. It's something you've made your own, something for you to be remembered by, something that, perhaps years later, your children and grandchildren can visit and get a view of your life in. It's part of your creativity, your hard work... it's your property. Now suppose you decide to go camping for a couple of weeks. You lock your door and assume that nobody is going to break in... but they do, and when you return home, to your horror you find that not only do these trespassers break in, but they also have quite uniquely imaginative ways of disrespecting, vandalizing and corrupting everything within your property. They light fires on your lawn, your topiary hedges are in heaps of black ashes. There's some blatantly obscene graffiti splattered across your front door, offensive images and rude words splashed on the walls and windows. Your television has been tipped over. Your photographs of family and friends have had the heads cut out of them. There's mold growing in the refrigerator, bottles of booze tipped over on the table, and cigarette smoke embedded into the carpeting. Your beloved houseplants are dead, your furniture has been stripped down and ruined. Basically, the thing you've spent years working for and creating within your lifetime has been tampered with to the point where it is just a grim joke.

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Rebecca McNutt

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"Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe."

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Chinua Achebe

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Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been.

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Mary Stewart Atwell

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"Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."

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Holly Black

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Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.

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Holly Black

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"Let me alone," said Mildred "Let alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave alone? That's what's wrong. We need to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!"

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Ray Bradbury

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

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Peter S. Beagle

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With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?

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Ray Bradbury

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Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?

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