Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Book Quotes, Lovers Quotes

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Book Quotes

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

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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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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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a good reader makes a good book

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

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

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

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Brother Quotes , Book Quotes

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

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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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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

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