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  • Aldous Huxley A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry Miller A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Salman Rushdie A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Angela Carter A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Rufus Choate A book is the only immortality.
    Rufus Choate
    American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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  • Rupert Brooke A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Anthony Hope A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Thomas Love Peacock A book that furnishes no quotations is no book, it is a plaything.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Thomas Fuller A book that is shut is but a block.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • John Ruskin A book worth reading is worth buying.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Carl Van Doren A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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