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Books are the liberated spirits of men.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

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I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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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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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

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The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.

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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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a good reader makes a good book

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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

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