Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Adventure Quotes

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. 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. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.

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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

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Books were my pass to personal freedom.

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I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.

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

There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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