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Book Reading Quotes (page 49)

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn. Michael J. Fox
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope. Friedrich August von Hayek
It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests. C. S. Lewis
Robert Graves quote: "I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But..."
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. Robert Graves
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich... Alice James
Jane Austen quote: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How..."
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! Jane Austen
C. S. Lewis quote: "If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall..."
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. C. S. Lewis
John Steinbeck quote: "Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close..."
Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. John Steinbeck
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. R. Buckminster Fuller
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. Barbara Kingsolver
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind. Ezra Taft Benson
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.-Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen Cornelia Funke
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. H. L. Mencken
When yous steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. Piers Anthony

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