Books Quotes

• "The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."
  By: Wolfe, Thomas
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• "A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end."
  By: William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
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• "It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them."
  By: William Osler
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• "A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations."
  By: William Murray
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• "I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
  By: William Lyon Phelps
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• "As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!"
  By: William James
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• "In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the twenty-first of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace-wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him."
  By: William Harrison Ainsworth
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• "On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . ."
  By: William Harrison Ainsworth
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• "One night, at the latter end of April 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood Street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer."
  By: William Harrison Ainsworth
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• "Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome."
  By: William Ewart Gladstone
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• "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. It may happen that it will yield you an unexpected delight, but this will be in its own uninterrupted way in spite of your good intentions."
  By: William Dean Howells
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• "There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
  By: Wilde, Oscar
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• "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."
  By: Wilde, Oscar
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• "The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."
  By: Whitman, Walt
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• "Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man."
  By: Whitman, Walt
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