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Booked Quotes (page 154)

They should have a store next to the bookstore called the shit store where you can get shit books to read while on the shitter. No one reads great literature on the shitter. Lewis Black
Berthold Auerbach quote: "Years teach us more than books."
Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach
John Ruskin quote: "If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying."
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. John Ruskin
The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . . Victor Hugo
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains. Vladimir Nabokov
Orson Welles quote: "If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close..."
If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! Orson Welles
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. Orhan Pamuk
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books. A. Whitney Brown
The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved. John Steinbeck
Courtney Love quote: "Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's..."
Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric) Courtney Love
We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute? the foundation of the human condition? and should be better.... Mario Vargas Llosa
Nora Roberts quote: "If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to..."
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. Nora Roberts
All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Grard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company. Marcel Proust
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. Roger Ebert
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. William Lyon Phelps

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