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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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson On Remembering

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Reading Quote By William Nicholson

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A book a day keeps reality away

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How to get up and get dressed

How to get up and get dressed Source: How to get up and get dressed

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

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

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

Mark Twain Quote

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” – Mark Twain http://www.bquot.es/s/289

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – your alternative covers

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman – your alternative covers http://gu.com/p/47at7

“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. …

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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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Travel

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So many books, so little time.

What I Did On The 4th Of July

The 4th of July has come and one, but if anybody cares as to what I did on (Democracy Day, Independence Day), was watching the rain from Hurricane Arthur come down, which started shortly before noon. It came down heavy at times, but for the most part, it was a light rain. I actually enjoyed …

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The Mind

Reading

You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book. Al Pacino

Libraries

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012 Source

Thinking

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. Source: tealdragon.net

Books

Feeling a lot better than I did last week, and for the next few days will be posting off and on. Below, is a few of the books that I like to read.

Taking A Break

Since the middle of the week, I have only posted once. There’s a reason for that. I came down with the flu, and it knocked me on flat on my ass. The worst part is over with, but the nuisance part of it is still with me. The flu is wide spread throughout four states: …

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New Best Seller: How To Understand Women

Note: When I took a break from blogging, the very next day, I came down with a nasty head cold. And it happened on the first day of spring. So my thinking is still bit foggy. With that said, here is a bit of humor from the email inbox. Thought you should know that the …

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A good novel ……

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We

We eat We cook We drink We sleep We talk We walk We read We go to school We study We work We play We travel We write We type We draw We watch TV We go to movies We drive We fly We ride We discuss We argue We laugh We smile We cry …

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It’s a day …..

It’s a day to stay inside. It’s a day to read a good book. It’s a day to drink plenty of coffee. It’s a day to do a crossword or two. It’s a day to spend lazily. It’s a day to watch TV. It’s a day to do all or whatever tickles your fancy.

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Solitude

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. — William Ellery Channing

Books

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. — John Ruskin

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Conversation

“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books.” – Chinese Proverb

A book is a dream… – Neil Gaiman

If you only read…

A book…

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb

“I spent three days a week…” – Ray Bradbury

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.” – Ray …

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