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Booked Quotes (page 141)

Roland Barthes quote: "the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life."
the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. Roland Barthes
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. Nick Hornby
A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Franz Kafka quote: "If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist..."
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Franz Kafka
Heinrich Heine quote: "This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings..."
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end Heinrich Heine
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret. Louise Erdrich
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. C. S. Lewis
Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to do when a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps that some of them came to pass in reality? for charity is an excellent foundation to build anything upon. Louisa May Alcott
To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes Alan Dean Foster
...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs... Doug Coupland
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands. Stefan Zweig
Kathy Acker quote: "There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you..."
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it Kathy Acker
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me."
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. Michel de Montaigne
Guillermo del Toro quote: "video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium..."
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". Guillermo del Toro
She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers. Michael Cunningham

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