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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. 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 , Birthday Quotes , Book Quotes

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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I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Knives Quotes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Book Quotes , Idlers 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

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Animal Quotes

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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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

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Book Quotes , Fall Quotes

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

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