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Booked Quotes (page 130)

Groucho Marx quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog..."
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
John Ruskin quote: "You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and..."
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. John Ruskin
Christopher Morley quote: "There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like..."
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love. Christopher Morley
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple..."
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Jorge Luis Borges
She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us. Pete Hamill
Beneath my incredulity All at once is flowing. Joy, the flash of the unbaited hook --Yes, yes, it fits, it's right, it had to be! Intuition weightless and ongoing Like stanzas in a book. Or golden scales in the melodic brook -- James Merrill
He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night. Mark Haddon
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. Swami Vivekananda
For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing. W. Somerset Maugham
I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Dick Gregory quote: "Dear MommaWherever you are, if ever you hear the word..."
Dear MommaWherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book. Dick Gregory
Fran Lebowitz quote: "To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I..."
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. Fran Lebowitz
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life."Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me. Anais Nin
This book, when I am dead, will be. A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way. Edna St. Vincent Millay

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