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Booked Quotes (page 157)

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this: 'Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.' It ends like this: 'Poo-tee-weet? Kurt Vonnegut
Agatha Christie quote: "I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers..."
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings Agatha Christie
This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact. Ernest Hemingway
Jodi Picoult quote: "How do you know that you are not part of a book? That..."
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? Jodi Picoult
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money. George Orwell
Haruki Murakami quote: "I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books..."
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. Haruki Murakami
C. S. Lewis quote: "No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be..."
No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied. C. S. Lewis
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. Michel de Montaigne
It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong. Donald E. Westlake
Terry Prachett quote: "It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it..."
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. Terry Prachett
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i. e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them. Benjamin Disraeli
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the... Mark Twain
Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you the Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger. Gordon R. Dickson
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value. Arthur Schopenhauer
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card

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