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Booked Quotes (page 138)

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's all here. (slapping his forehead) Written in flames a mile high. And it won't be recollected in tranquillity either, picking daffodils with Auntie Wordsworth. It'll be recollected in fire, and blood. My blood. John Osborne
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds. Neil Gaiman
Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough? Jeanette Winterson
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Fry quote: "Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often..."
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books Stephen Fry
John Burroughs quote: "I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a..."
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth? John Waters
I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a... Bill Hicks
Thomas Jefferson quote: "I cannot live without books ~ Thomas Jefferson, writer of..."
I cannot live without books ~ Thomas Jefferson, writer of delcarations. Thomas Jefferson
Edward Gibbon quote: "To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present..."
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. Edward Gibbon
Eudora Welty quote: "I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books..."
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. Eudora Welty
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books. Connie Willis
Voltaire quote: "It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great..."
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. Voltaire
John McGahern quote: "only then did I wake out of the book."
only then did I wake out of the book. John McGahern
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. John Waters

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