Charles Dickens Quotes, Rain Quotes, Book Quotes

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Book Quotes , Fate Quotes

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing 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

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

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

Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

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A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

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I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."

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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

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