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Books - reading
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Best Quotes about Books - reading
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Lincoln, Abraham
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Tupper, Martin
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Auden, W. H.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.
Johnson
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Bloom, Allan
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Berger, John
A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
Steinbeck, John
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
Beware of the person of one book.
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Lowell, James Russell
To read too many books is harmful.
Zedong, Mao
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Rohn, Jim
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Bruyere, Jean De La
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Trevelyan, G. M.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost always a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Mann, Horace
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
Dawkins, John
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Channing, William Ellery
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Wolfe, Thomas
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Morely, John
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Mencken, H. L.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Guin, Ursula K. Le
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Parker, Dorothy
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Whitman, Walt
Read good, big important things.
Noonan, Peggy
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Adler, Mortimer J.
A library is thought in cold storage.
Samuel, Herbert
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Temple, Sir William
A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
Styron, William
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Jackson, Holbrook
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
Milton, John
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Maclennan, Hugh
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Vaneigem, Raoul
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Rosten, Leo
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Baudelaire, Charles
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Burgess, Anthony
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Jackson, George Holbrook
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disney, Walt
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Byron, Lord
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Colton, Charles Caleb
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.
Kingsley, Charles
You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.
Hadas, Moses
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Jefferson, Thomas
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Chandler, Raymond
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