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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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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.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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