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Booked Quotes (page 101)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it..."
Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Island and the Greenland Norse in the past. Any society in turmoil today, no matter how remote ... can cause trouble for prosperous societies on other continents and is also subject to their influence (whether helpful or destabilizing). For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline. But we also are the first to enjoy the opportunity of learning quickly from developments in... Jared Diamond
Dr. Seuss quote: "This book is to be read in bed."
This book is to be read in bed. Dr. Seuss
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Herman Hesse
You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. Italo Calvino
Oliver Goldsmith quote: "A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be..."
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Oliver Goldsmith
Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book. Evelyn Waugh
Michael Ondaatje quote: " the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We..."
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. Michael Ondaatje
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind... Ben Hecht
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book. Stephen Colbert
Bertrand Russell quote: "If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a..."
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only a good ones would do it Bertrand Russell
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read Stephen King
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. John Piper
John Waters quote: "If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't..."
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don’t sleep with people who don’t read! John Waters
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed. Madeleine L'Engle

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