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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
Category: Books and Reading Author: John LeCarre
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Never judge a book by its movie.
Category: Books and Reading Author: J W Eagan
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Charles Lamb
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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
Category: Books and Reading Author: John Lyly
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Lin Yutang
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I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Laurence Sterne
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You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Strickland Gillilan
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He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.
Category: Books and Reading Source: Arabic Proverb
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An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Augustine Birrell
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Helen E Haines
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Richard Steele
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Category: Books and Reading Author: W Somerset Maugham
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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!
Category: Books and Reading Author: J N Larned
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Voltaire
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Oscar Wilde
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Augustus Hare
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Category: Books and Reading Author: E M Forster
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