Alan Lightman Quotes, Couple Quotes, Book Quotes

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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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Book Quotes , Long Quotes

I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Believe Quotes , Book Quotes

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Book Quotes , Home Quotes

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Book Quotes , Giving Quotes

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

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Tags : Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes , Determination Quotes , Book Quotes

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

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I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Hate Quotes , Book Quotes

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

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Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Fun Quotes , Book Quotes

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Believe Quotes , Book Quotes