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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.
    Source: Number9Dream (2007) 365
    ― 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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  • Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
    ― Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper A good book is the best of friends.
    ― Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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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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  • 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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  • Samuel Butler A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
    ― Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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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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