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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Book Quotes , Light Quotes

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Regret Quotes , Book Quotes

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

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... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Book Quotes

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

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