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"530 Books Quotes

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Etiquette book Runaway wives
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

My books Anoint me Few friends Reach
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I get a warm feeling among my books.

Warm feeling My books
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Where No Novelty There
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the dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

The dearer A book My heart More battered
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Through it,literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Through it Literature We know The past
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Love Lose Myself Men's
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A home without books is a body without soul.
A home Without books A body Soul
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Real purpose Books The mind Own thinking
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

No mistaking Real book Like falling In love
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

A heaven This earth We inhabit We read
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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That's what this country needs,more books.

Country needs More books
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Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

Books Have to Be heavy Whole world
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Taught me How easily Can escape This world
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A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A reader Really see The characters Feels them
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You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

When people Start Burning books Soon burn
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If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Keep pretending That book To live The life
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Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

Books Like flypaper Memories cling Printed pages
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Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Some books Be tasted Some devoured Digested thoroughly
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companion, to feel they're not alone in the world.

For people They read My books Feel companion
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Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Noyhing Invented Infinite reward GoodBook
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Your library is your paradise.
Your Library Paradise
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavor of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Novels Give you The matrix Emotions
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Remember The book Bores you Are twenty
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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

Blessed companion A book Lifelong friend Your own
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A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Pretty sight Lady with A book
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

What kind Life You have A house
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Suddenly understand Every moment A book Taken seriously
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

To read A book Three times Know it
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But I'm also addicted to books. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book.

Also addicted Books Human being Television show
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We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

We Books Hearts Wise
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If I live to be 45 and finally publish this book, I think I will do a cross-country bike ride and book tour. Assuming, too, that there’s a country to ride across.

Finally publish This book Cross country Bike ride
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Been reading a lot of books. It’s changing my life you know.

Been reading Books It's changing My life
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There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you’re not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

People You Problem Book
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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.

Books Society Speak Welcome
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I’ve always believed that there’s lifelong benefit in picking up pieces of seemingly irrelevant/unconnected/unrelated but later, useful, knowledge and information along the way.

Always believed Lifelong benefit Picking up Irrelevant
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions

Man Books Determinations Actions
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books Souls Secrets Our own
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Simpler Books Read Contents
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I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Believe Reading Book Learn
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Man Understands Book Lived
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I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Book Share Learned Figure
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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself

Books Worlds Ignorance Cruel
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Books Flame Flower Cloud
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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