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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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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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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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

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The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.

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she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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