Alan Furst Quotes, Book Quotes, Europe Quotes

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

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Tags : A. J. Jacobs Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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