Quotes 341 till 360 of 443.
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
The Unquiet Grave (1944) -
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
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The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
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The proper study of mankind is books.
Crome Yellow (1921) Ch. XXVIII -
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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