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Booked Quotes (page 91)

You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books. Joan Didion
It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances. Derrick Jensen
Louis Pasteur quote: "A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books..."
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. Louis Pasteur
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things John Mayer
The path trodden by wayfarers and pilgrims followed the railway and then turned into the fields. Here Lara stopped, closed her eyes and took a good breath of the air which carried all the smells of the huge countryside. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the meaning of her life. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, then,... Boris Pasternak
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed."
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Ursula K. Le Guin
Henry Miller quote: "This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No,..."
This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Ar? Henry Miller
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of themeaning of it all. William James
Mortimer Adler quote: "All books will become light in proportion as you find light in..."
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. Mortimer Adler
Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them. Philip Pullman
Tom Peters quote: "If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea,..."
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. Tom Peters
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter. Terry McMillan
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on. Zora Neale Hurston
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with - Jack Kerouac
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you. Bjork

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