Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

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A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

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The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

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I don't write books inadvertently.

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Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

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

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