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Booked Quotes (page 208)

Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and... Henri Nouwen
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Keep good company, read good books, love good things and..."
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can Louisa May Alcott
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms. Philip Pullman
Terry Prachett quote: "In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated..."
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. Terry Prachett
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail."I was referring to the Bible."Faukman cringed. "I knew that. Dan Brown
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. Stephen Fry
I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do. Gertrude Stein
Emily Dickinson quote: "There is no frigate like a book.."
There is no frigate like a book.. Emily Dickinson
That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over a span of time? […] And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a moment the way we reread a book or resee a film. Milan Kundera
Ben Affleck quote: "Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one."
Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one. Ben Affleck
If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. J. K. Rowling
Interpreting myself, I always read. Myself into my books. I clearly need. Some help. But all who climb on their own way. Carry my image, too, into the breaking day. Friedrich Nietzsche
Pat Conroy quote: "my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks...."
my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. Pat Conroy
TO MY COLLABORATOR who buys the ink and paper laughs and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business this book is gratefully dedicated in memory of a winter’s morning in Switzerland A. A. Milne
Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'.'How we roared! P. G. Wodehouse

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