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Books and movies are like apples and oranges. The both are fruit, but taste completely different. ~Stephen King
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Great books help you understand, and they help you understood. ~John Green
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ~Anthony Burgess
She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. ~Annie Dillard
Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage
Book Reading
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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery
Coffee – Books
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
R.I.P Toni Morrison
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
I’ll read my books ….
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. Continue reading “I’ll read my books ….”
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Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
To read a book …..
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying
“Why don’t you write books people can read?”
“Why don’t you write books people can read?” – Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan
Advantage Of Reading A Book
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ~ Jane Smiley
Books Are The Perfect Entertainment ~ Stephen King
Born: September 21, 1947
Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids. -Cornelia Funke, German Author
Reading A Book
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Comforts
couch book black coffee ac is on the comforts of home
E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad timesContinue reading “E. B. White – Library Quote”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
J.D. Salinger Quote
William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner
Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. ~John Green
Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879
Good Books
Quote ~ Al Pacino
“You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” – Al Pacino
Books
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov
Old Books
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Thinking
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Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Public Libraries
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. ~Henry Rollins
Books
Friend
There is no friend as loyal as a book. -Ernest Hemingway
The Eyes
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
First Amendment
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. -Thurgood Marshall Stanley v. Georgia (1969)
Feelings
Born: March 26, 1930 – Died: January 17, 2001 Occupation: Poet
People Are Best…
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Good Books…
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Rainy Days
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Books…
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything else. -Plato
On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
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Jonathan Franzen Quote On Reading
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Louis Carroll
What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures and conversation? Lewis Carroll
Robertson Davies
Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995 Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.
Saul Bellow On Libraries
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Jane Austen On Reading
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T.S. Eliot On Libraries
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Ralph Waldo Emerson On Remembering
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Reading Quote By William Nicholson
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Chinese Proverb
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Books
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Mark Twain Quote
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A book a day keeps reality away
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Happiness – Leo Tolstoy
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How to get up and get dressed
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Quote From Kurt Vonnegut’s Book, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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J.D. Salinger Quote On Reading A Book
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Reading Quote – Bertrand Russell
There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. – Bertrand Russell
Libraries – Doris Lessing
Books – George Carlin Quote
Books
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. -Mark Twain
Books
Reading Question
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Tuesday Morning Quote
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.” – Michel de Montaigne http://www.bquot.es/s/3295
This Has Happened To Me A Few Times, And It Sucks
Anthony Trollope Quote
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Mark Twain Quote
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” – Mark Twain http://www.bquot.es/s/289
Paul Theroux Quote
Born: April 10, 1941
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – your alternative covers
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Libraries
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.” -Andrew Carnegie
Literature Quote by Paul Auster
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one. -Paul Auster http://en.proverbia.net
Writers Quote – Ernest Hemingway
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. -Ernest Hemingway en.proverbia.net
A Thought On A Paper Napkin
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Coffee and a Book
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Life
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Harry Fosdick
Living Room Lamp
Living room lamp, books, tables rocking chair and other things. This work A Pondering Mind is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Books
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.Continue reading “Books”
My top 10 unfinishable novels
The article is from The Guardian on line. Found it to be an enlightening read. My top 10 unfinishable novels http://gu.com/p/42axe
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So many books, so little time.
