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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Quotes of Book ( 51-100)

51.  “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green
52.  “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann
53.  “From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”
― Groucho Marx
54.  “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett
55.  “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace
56.  “If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
― Jerry Seinfeld
57.  “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
58.  “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
59.  “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen
60.  “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley
61.  “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis
62.  “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero
63. “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
― Christopher Paolini
64.  “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
65.  “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King
66.  “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler
67.  “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain
68.  “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott
69.  “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz
70.  “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl
71.  “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
72.  “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy
73.  “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare
74.  “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Francis Bacon
75.  “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin
76.  “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron
77.  “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green
78.  “I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
― Steven Wright
79.  “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau
80.  “I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.”
― James Patterson
81.  “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West
82.  “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound
83.  “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou
84.  “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett
85.  “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King
86.  “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett
87.  “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
88.  “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
89.  “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume
90.  “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
91.  “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X
92.  “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss
93.  “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis
94.  “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown
95. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
96.  “Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green
97.  “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley
98.  “Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman
99.  “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

― Stephen Fry
100. “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell

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