Quotes with books

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  • Jonathan Swift Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bonnie Bassler As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Ben Katchor As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Paxton Hood Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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  • Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Wesley Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Anne Stevenson Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Walter Benjamin Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Alexander Smith Books are a finer world within the world.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Toni Morrison Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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