Books Quotes

• "The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading."
  By: Mencken, H. L.
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• "A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new."
  By: Mcluhan, Marshall
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• "Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
  By: McKenna, Richard
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• "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
  By: Mccosh
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• "What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read."
  By: Mccay, James T.
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• "To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence."
  By: Maurice Blanchot
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• "I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all."
  By: Maugham, W. Somerset
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• "We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars."
  By: Mary Carolyn Davies
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• "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
  By: Marx, Groucho
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• "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away."
  By: Marina Tsvetaeva
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• "A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences."
  By: Marguerite Yourcenar With Open Eyes
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• "The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
  By: Mansfield, Katherine
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• "Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."
  By: Mallarme, Stephane
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• "A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat."
  By: Maclennan, Hugh
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