Books Quotes

• "A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun."
  By: Steinbeck, John
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• "Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers."
  By: Spielberg, Steven
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• "Live always in the best company when you read."
  By: Smith, Sydney
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• "Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication."
  By: Smith, Logan Pearsall
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• "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books."
  By: Sinyavsky, Andre
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• "Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them."
  By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
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• "How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?"
  By: Shaw, George Bernard
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• "O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."
  By: Shakespeare, William
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• "Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
  By: Schopenhauer, Arthur
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• "To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
  By: Schopenhauer, Arthur
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• "Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."
  By: Schopenhauer, Arthur
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• "I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
  By: Sandwell, B. K.
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• "The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
  By: Samuel Butler
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• "To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."
  By: Ruskin, John
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• "How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
  By: Ruskin, John
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