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Booking Quotes (page 9)

Mortimer Adler quote: "Books are absent teachers."
Books are absent teachers. Mortimer Adler
Virginia Woolf quote: "Books are the mirrors of the soul."
Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf
Sherman Alexie quote: "Books and beer are the best and worst excuse."
Books and beer are the best and worst excuse. Sherman Alexie
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. Roberto Bolano
Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison. Gustave Flaubert
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart. Pat Conroy
Julian Barnes quote: "books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look..."
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. Julian Barnes
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Books are for nothing but to inspire"
Books are for nothing but to inspire Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth. Jack Kerouac
James Rollins quote: "Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins"
Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins James Rollins
Saul Williams quote: "Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from..."
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun Saul Williams
Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson
Oscar Wilde quote: "Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. Oscar Wilde
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind. Jeanette Winterson
Moliere quote: "Books and marriage go ill together."
Books and marriage go ill together. Moliere

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