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Books And Reading Quotes (page 12)

People disagreeing everywhere you look, Makes you wanna stop and read a book. Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street. That was really shook. Bob Dylan
He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places. Oscar Wilde
Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'dBy your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shadeBelow the garden...His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship. Edward Gorey
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being. Karl Marx
When yous steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. Piers Anthony
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
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
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. Orhan Pamuk
Aldous Huxley quote: "Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume..."
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
Virginia Graham quote: "Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of..."
Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’) Virginia Graham
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the... Betty Smith
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature Haruki Murakami
Aldous Huxley quote: "You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."
You can't consume much if you sit still and read books. Aldous Huxley
Edward Abbey quote: "The best thing about graduating from the university was that I..."
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. Edward Abbey
The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book. Susan Sontag

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