Reading Good Books Quotes (page 4)

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you. Ernest Hemingway

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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

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Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years. C. S. Lewis

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I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Larry McMurtry

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In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. Terry Prachett

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• book
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. Christopher Morley

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• contentment
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For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. Neil Gaiman

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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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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• people

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures! Samuel Johnson

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• little
• book

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney

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• shopping
• sleep

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. Janet Street-Porter

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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx

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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody. Joanna Lumley