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Booked Quotes (page 95)

Neil Gaiman quote: "In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem..."
In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book. Neil Gaiman
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) Neil Gaiman
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers. Alain de Botton
Somebody once said if it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained. What I mean is don’t leap to any conclusions. Haruki Murakami
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study. Thomas Mann
Alan Watts quote: "Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not..."
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. Alan Watts
Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs. Umberto Eco
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation. but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books but they almost never talk.(pg114) Paulo Coelho
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway"
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway F. Scott Fitzgerald
Haruki Murakami quote: "The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity..."
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. Haruki Murakami
Bill Watterson quote: "Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a..."
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. Bill Watterson
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. Jane Austen
We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen. Vladimir Nabokov
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you. Mitch Albom
Neil Gaiman quote: "I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing..."
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there. Neil Gaiman

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