Booked Quotes (page 107)

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• love
• book
• weird

All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories. Haruki Murakami

• good
• book
• good action

wanted is a good action book Caroline B. Cooney

• good
• god
• book

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• book
• funny
• jokes

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. Alain de Botton

• book
• reading
• men

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. Thomas Hobbes

• learning
• book
• library

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book. Terry Prachett

• wise
• gossip
• him

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon. Christopher Isherwood

• book
• reading
• sometimes

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they"re badly read, too. Nick Hornby

• best
• book
• author

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. Samuel Johnson

• book
• real
• scary

Nothin’s real scary except in books. Harper Lee

• life
• music
• book

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. Ernest Gaines

• responsibility
• fall
• hell

This is the female form, vapor, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable... Walt Whitman

• book
• reading
• history

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. Terry Prachett

• reading
• scientific
• old

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it. Thomas Merton

• tree
• past
• book

This book is written in blood. Is it written entirely in blood? No, some of it is written in tears. Are the blood and tears all mine? Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her... Joanna Russ