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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Healing Quotes

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Book Quotes , Dark Quotes

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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

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Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

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You kiss by th' book.

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

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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

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

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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