I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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I have seen men hazard their fortunes, go on long journeys halfway around the world, forge friendships, even lie, cheat and steal, all for the gain of a book.
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The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And all the errata will appear at the end
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin
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The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
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A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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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.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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Never read any book that is not a year old
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If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
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Koch has committed egocide with this book.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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