Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Grateful Quotes

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.

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We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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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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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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I've written a book that hopefully will give people a sense of what [presidency] was like. I hope my friends read it and say, "Now I understand." I hope my detractors read it and say, "Well, I better understand."

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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Book Quotes , Feelings Quotes