Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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

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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

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I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

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I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

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