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Books

«Study nature, not books»
«There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.»
Author: Mary Ellen Chase | About: Books
«Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it»
Author: Moses Hadas | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: copy, sending, thank you
«That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.»
«...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | About: Books
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
«?The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.?»
«That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Books, Writers | Keywords: busyness, recalls
«Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine per»
«That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: Tell the World