Quotes 241 till 260 of 491.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
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My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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