Quotes with book-collector

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  • Malcolm X People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Cassandra Clare Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Groucho Marx Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bernard Malamud Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Ian McEwan Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Novak Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
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  • Ben Okri Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Frank Dane Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... [Rule 2] is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
    Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Selfactivity, which is the best effect of any book.
    Sartor Resartus
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bob Dylan She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carol Shields She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
    The Marriage Plot (2011) 42
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Aaron Neville So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
    Aaron Neville
    American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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