Quotes 381 till 400 of 489.
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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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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
Works (1913) -
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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