I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer
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In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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Study nature, not books
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
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A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote
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