Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Book Quotes

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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

Books are for nothing but to inspire

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Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Real Quotes , Book Quotes

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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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Country Quotes , Book Quotes

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

I was able to adjust initially by plunging right into the book and the Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. And it turns out that there is a good way to make a living by giving speeches.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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I even love the smell of books.

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Book Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Book Quotes , Regulation Quotes

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Book Quotes , Important Quotes

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

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Tags : Adam Gollner Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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

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

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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