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Booked Quotes (page 86)

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely. Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely... Allen Ginsberg
Craig Ferguson quote: "It's a book. It's mine. And it's done."
It's a book. It's mine. And it's done. Craig Ferguson
We all received invitations, made by hand from construction paper, with balloons containing our names in Magic Marker. Our amazement at being formally invited to a house we had only visited in our bathroom fantasies was so great that we had to compare one another's invitations before we believed it. It was thrilling to know that the Lisbon girls knew our names, that their delicate vocal cords had pronounced their syllables, and that they meant something in their lives. They had had to labor... Jeffrey Eugenides
From "The Book That Changed My Life":-"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher Robert Ballard
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the..."
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. Zora Neale Hurston
I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy. William Gass
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well. Sherman Alexie
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. Johann Georg Hamann
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. ... Jeffrey Eugenides
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what? Jean-Paul Sartre
Joseph Joubert quote: "The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our..."
The great drawback in new books is that they prevent our reading the old ones Joseph Joubert
Emily Dickinson quote: "Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom."
Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. Emily Dickinson
Ray Bradbury quote: "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"He laughed...."
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"He laughed. "That's against the law!"Oh. Of course. Ray Bradbury
Cornelia Funke quote: "When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you..."
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. Cornelia Funke
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung... A. Whitney Brown

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