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Booked Quotes (page 90)

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games. Steven Pinker
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it. Cormac McCarthy
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does... Fernando Pessoa
The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter. Elizabeth Moon
Judy Blume quote: "Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so..."
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. Judy Blume
Thomas Harris quote: "Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He..."
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. Thomas Harris
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality? A. J. Jacobs
I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm afraid I go off like a bottle of warm beer. George Orwell
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these..."
If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look. Vladimir Nabokov
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself."
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. Jeffrey Eugenides
Harper Lee quote: "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the..."
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. Harper Lee
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. Herman Melville
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. Sylvia Plath
Pat Conroy quote: "Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything,..."
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. Pat Conroy
We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with metaphors? Writers stand still and yet vacate our homes Inside our fantasies. We are word-whores, With libidos and egos of balsa wood. We’d have sex with our books, if only we could. Sherman Alexie

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