Alain de Botton Quotes, Book Quotes, Order Quotes

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.

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When a new book appears one should read an old one.

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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

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Book Quotes

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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My mistake was in ever opening the books.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Book Quotes , Taken Quotes

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Book Quotes , Native American Quotes

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Miracle Quotes

The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy.

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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Lying Quotes , Book Quotes