Paulo Coelho Quotes, Book Quotes, Boys Quotes

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

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"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

Look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing the first president, the 43rd president ought to be doing what he thinks is right. And eventually, historians will come and realize whether... the decisions I made made sense.

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The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Book Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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

The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

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Tags : Adrian Tchaikovsky Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

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

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Facts Quotes

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Some books are lies frae end to end.

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Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Book Quotes , Mean Quotes

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Book Quotes

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Fun Quotes , Book Quotes

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

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