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"530 Books Quotes

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Books Burning Crimes Reading
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This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Along Had How Invent
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
About Begins Book Care
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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Books Certain Editor House
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Books Centuries Conversation Finest Good
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When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Books Comic ComicBooks Discovered
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Grow Somewhere Find Needful
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

Best Ever Intricate Piece
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Always Away Book Dream
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Libraries are where it all begins.

Begins Libraries Where
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Librarian Service Occupation Attendant
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The books Read Thinks Makes
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.

Really scar Books
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Bad Bad Rap Escape Escapist
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Books Grow Never Newest
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Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

Became Came Chi Direct
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Bookcase Lovely Please Throw
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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Audience Cookbooks Launch Lot
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.
Anything Been Ever Has-Been
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Grew Mark Mark Twain Reading
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

Books Exercises Floor Get
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain Could Institution Longer
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Any Anyone Books Ever
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Books Windows Soul
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

Again Anything Because Books
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Come
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Does Essentially Loneliness Lonely
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I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Anything Doing Fact Good
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Honest to God, I do all the research on these books myself.
Books God Honest Myself
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.
Books Windows Soul Looks out
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never

Book Good company Conversation Loquacity
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Each book Secret history Means
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Schoolmasters Everybody Employ Intelligent
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