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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

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There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

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A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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