Books and marriage go ill together.
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I don't go by the rule book..I lead from the heart, not the head.
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Don't judge a book by its cover
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand 0,000.
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The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? For when I make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one
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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.
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A good book praises itself
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond
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A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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