Quotes with books

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  • John Wooden The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Joubert The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
    Works (1913)
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Brontë There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Barbara Park There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas L. Masson There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Candace Camp There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Ray Bradbury There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Brodsky There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Ben Jonson There be some men who are born only to suck out the poison of books.
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    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bennett Cerf There have been too many [books] in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Walt Disney There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no past, so long as books shall live!
    The Souls of Books St. 4, 9
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol Berg There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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