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Booked Quotes (page 203)

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book. Susan Sontag
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the... Frederick Buechner
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. Anne Bronte
Patti Smith quote: "I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent..."
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ... Patti Smith
She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday. Haruki Murakami
Terry Prachett quote: "That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid..."
That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count. Terry Prachett
I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it. David Sedaris
Horace Mann quote: "A Home without Books is like a Room without Windows"~ HORACE MANN"
A Home without Books is like a Room without Windows"~ HORACE MANN Horace Mann
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search. Evelyn Waugh
But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book. E. M. Forster
Agatha Christie quote: "People should be interested in books, not their authors."
People should be interested in books, not their authors. Agatha Christie
James Bryce quote: "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take..."
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it. James Bryce
One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*):"During the past thirty years, people from all the civilised countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them... Dale Carnegie
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. Fernando Pessoa
Larry McMurtry quote: "I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by..."
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Larry McMurtry

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