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Booked Quotes (page 186)

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. J. R. R. Tolkien
Paul McCartney quote: "When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You..."
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. Paul McCartney
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.) Maxine Hong Kingston
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything. Aldous Huxley
Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is bollocks hasn’t stopped a good many people from believing in it. Darwinism itself is only supported by tons of evidence, which is a clear indication that Darwin didn’t write his books himself. Eric Idle
The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it. James Joyce
Virginia Graham quote: "Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of..."
Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’) Virginia Graham
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a..."
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books Theodore Roosevelt
Gene Fowler quote: "A book is never finished; it's abandoned."
A book is never finished; it's abandoned. Gene Fowler
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. Stephen King
Jane Austen quote: "With a book he was regardless of time."
With a book he was regardless of time. Jane Austen
Mitch Albom quote: "A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. Mitch Albom
Franz Kafka quote: "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the..."
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. Franz Kafka
James Bryce quote: "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry..."
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it a James Bryce
John Milton quote: "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,..."
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton

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