Quotes with book-friends

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  • Oswald Chambers A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Frank Crane A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Raymond Chandler A good title is the title of a successful book.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • William Styron A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
    William Styron
     
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  • Barbara Cartland A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
    Caroline Winberg
     
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  • William Frederick Book A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • William Frederick Book A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Butler A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Lord George Byron A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • D.B.C. Pierre A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
    Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • St. Francis de Sales A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • W. H. Auden A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • William Hazlitt A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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