Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Reading Quotes, Book Quotes

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.

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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

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Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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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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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Running Quotes , Book Quotes

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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

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

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