Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Book Quotes, Years Quotes

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

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

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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

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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Eye Quotes

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Book Quotes , Trying Quotes

In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

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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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Book Quotes , Next Week Quotes

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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