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A dirty book is rarely dusty.
- Time
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. --F. Mitterand
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. --W. H. Auden
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. --P. J. O'Rourke
An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. --Augustine Birrell
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.
As long as the unread stack stays at under 100 books it can't be considered stockpiling. --Miriam Nadel
Beware, the man of one book. --St. Thomas Aquinas
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. --Charles W. Eliot
Die with your books out! --Grafitti in McCabe Library, Swarthmore College
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. --Gustave Flaubert
Don't join the book burners. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book. --Murial Clark
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. --Mel Brooks
Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and usually it's reading his own handwriting. --G. Norman Collie
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. --Amy Lowell
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. --Rebecca West
Help! We are lost, crazed and starving and without any good books as well.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. --Sir Winston Churchill
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. --Henry David Thoreau
I am a Bookaholic.If you are a decent person, you will not sell me another book.
I am a part of all I have read. --John Kieran
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. --Jorge Luis Borges
I've traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
If you believe what you read, the sky is thick with aliens who are designing pyramids, disemboweling livestock, impregnating rural people and generally having a good time at our expense. --Scott Adams
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. --Benjamin Franklin
If you write in the dust, please don't date it!
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. --Jane Hamilton
Libraries are not made, they grow. --Augustine Birrell
Naturally you're out of book space. Everyone is always out of book space. If you're not out of book space, you're probably not worth knowing.
Oh very clever Worf. Eat any good books lately? --Q, "ST:TNG"
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. --Virginia Woolf
Read... Brains Get Hungry too!
So many books, so little:
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. --Elizabeth Hardwick
The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on... --rohnb@netcom.com
The paper burns, but the words fly away. --Ben Joseph Akiba
The pen is the tongue of the mind. --Miguel de Cervantes
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. --Katherine Mansfield
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. --Descartes
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. --Oscar Wilde
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. --Dorthy Parker
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. --Chinese Proverb
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare. --Kenko Yoshida
Today a reader: tomorrow a leader. --W. Fusselman
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. --Rita Mae Brown
We all know that books burn - yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never do. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war we know, books are weapons. --FDR
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. --John Fowles, "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. --B. F. Skinner
When I get some money I buy books. If I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. --Marie de Sevigne
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. --Clifton Fadiman
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. --Heinrich Heine
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasure of the mind. Books are humanity in print. --Barbara Tuchman Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... --Lawrence Clark Powell
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers will happen in the best of families. --Rita Mae Brown
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. --Iris Murdoch
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
