Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey?s fits and starts, rehearses life?s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
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President Clinton signed a 0 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a 0 million deal to read a book by 2003.
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
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George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.
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This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
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The picture of a flower in a botanical book is information; its mission ends with our knowledge. But in pure art it is a personal communication. And therefore until it finds its harmony in the depth of our personality it misses the mark. We can treat
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work
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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.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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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.
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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
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I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men
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