Good Book Quotes (page 7)

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• good
• may
• drunk

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. Holbrook Jackson

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• book
• bad

all good books are bad! Elinor Ostrom

• selfish
• friend
• good

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfis? You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. Simone de Beauvoir

• love
• she
• book

Wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she kept reading it and reading it... John Irving

• pretty
• game
• good

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you! Orson Scott Card

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• friend
• friends

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. Francis Bacon

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• inspirational

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Stephen King

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• book
• words

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. George Orwell

• dream
• year end
• good

so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows... Virginia Woolf

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• book
• expectation

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. Louisa May Alcott

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• book
• fire

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. L. M. Montgomery

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• book
• destroyed

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself". John Milton

• thanks
• true
• art

Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day. John Wooden

• spring
• look
• good

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted. Jean Giraudoux

• good
• book
• goods

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books. Martin Luther