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Booking Quotes (page 167)

Jane Austen quote: "I will not allow books to prove any thing."But how shall we..."
...I will not allow books to prove any thing."But how shall we prove any thing?"We never shall. Jane Austen
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A book is as private and consensual as sex."
A book is as private and consensual as sex. Chuck Palahniuk
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read..."
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Anatole France quote: "We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote..."
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. Anatole France
Thomas Carlyle quote: "If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated..."
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Thomas Carlyle
Dr. Seuss quote: "Be awesome! Be a book nut!"
Be awesome! Be a book nut! Dr. Seuss
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be. Margaret Atwood
David Foster Wallace quote: "The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader..."
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. David Foster Wallace
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. Marguerite Duras
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone. Jennifer Weiner
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. Edward Said
C. S. Lewis quote: "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long..."
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. Arthur Conan Doyle
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer. Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? Frederick Buechner

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