Books Quotes

• "When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."
  By: Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
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• "Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
  By: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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• "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
  By: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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• "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
  By: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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• "Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
  By: Arnold Lobel
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• "There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews."
  By: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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• "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that? Not really [McCarthy's]. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."
  By: Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
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• "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face… one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
  By: Charles Langbridge Morgan
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• "[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed."
  By: Joseph Wood Krutch
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• "A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
  By: Omar Khayyám
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• "[Book dedication:] To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible."
  By: Al Jaffee
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• "Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain booksto!0,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
  By: Lois Horowitz
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• "The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul.""
  By: Paxton Hood
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• "Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill "by the numbers," recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word."
  By: Jacquelyn Gross
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• "Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader."
  By: Terry Eagleton
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• "The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant."
  By: Wade E. Cutler
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