Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Censorship Quotes

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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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Book Quotes , Forever Quotes

At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Book Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Death Quotes , Book Quotes

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

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