Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Book Quotes, Squares Quotes

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

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He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

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You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

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