Booking Quotes (page 150)

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• reading books
• reading
• be nice

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? David Baldacci

• good
• book
• sleep

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. George R. R. Martin

• book
• mind
• mindfulness

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. George R. R. Martin

• learning
• book
• writing

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book? and that he did not learn it better. Friedrich Nietzsche

• great
• manly
• philosophical

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis

• book
• perfect
• bicycle

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form. Jacques Barzun

• wishes
• reading
• learning

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver

• book
• emotional
• father

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library. Michael Chabon

• short
• book
• wellness

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. Jane Austen

• book
• different
• music

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. Orhan Pamuk

• book
• home
• going home

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! John Waters

• book
• reading
• hand

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on. Nick Hornby

• good
• mindfulness
• mind

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world--because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to see that the bad got punished, the good got rewarded and in the end all was made right.I'd like to think that fantasy does the same thing. It reminds us that this is how it should be, and maybe if we all put our minds to it a little more, this is how it will be. The good will be rewarded. The... Mercedes Lackey

• book
• men
• crying

I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath."Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book!"From Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

• memories
• greatness
• eyes

This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great shaping forces of life. Calamity fixes them with her mesmeric eye, and they begin to scoop and paw at the rubble of their days, trying to pluck the memory of the quotidian - a toy, a book, a garment, even a photograph - from the garbage heaps of the irretrievable, of their overwhelming loss. Salman Rushdie