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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

-Oscar Wilde

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each copy of a book has its own unique personality. Reading a book from the library is not the same as reading another copy of the same book from the same library, which is again completely different from readingyour own copy of the book.

-Indu Muralidharan

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Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

-Jim Rohn

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

-Yuri Boganov

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I am Envy…I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

-Christopher Marlowe

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

-Voltaire

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When you adapt to someone, they become a part of your routine, a part of you. And when they’re taken away, you feel a bit lost. No matter how much you think it won’t affect your life, it does.

-E.L. Montes

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

-W. Somerset

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What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

-Edward Abbey

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Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they’ve stockpiled....

-Steven Johnson

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Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It...

-Dinaw Mengestu

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I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.

-Trevor Rabin

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There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on–a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

-Graham Swift

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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds–the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one...

-Galt Niederhoffer

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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

-Eugene Field

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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

-Jasper Fforde

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She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

-Frances Hodgson

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…there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that “Relapse is part of recovery.” It’s another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.

-Chris Prentiss

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I wouldn’t get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors.

-Chuck Palahniuk

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My books are all fantastically sentimental.

-Chuck Palahniuk

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People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.

-Jakub Marian

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The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

-Douglas Rushkoff

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I’ll make you fitter to talk with men,I’ll touch with silver the lines you pen,I’ll lead you nearer the truth you seek,I’ll strengthen you when your faith grows weak -This place on your shelf is a prison cell,Let me come into your mind to dwell!

-Edgar A.

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It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

-Chris Van

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There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

-Jarod Kintz

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Who wants a library full of books you’ve already read?

-Harlan Ellison

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us....

-Henry David Thoreau

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This is my logo for Art and Books

-Jarod Kintz

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If you ask me for a book to read, I’ll hand you a soda can. Start there.

-Jarod Kintz

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The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

-Greg Weisman

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A novel is just a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.

-George Saunders

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All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes —...

-Diane Setterfield

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Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

-J. Patrick Lewis

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You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

-Elizabeth George

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

-Henry Ward

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I shake my head. “Not my kind of scene. I’d rather be home with my book boyfriend.” “I’ll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man…” He shakes his head. “Boys in books are better.

-Danielle Torella

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Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another – there’s no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

-Donna Gillespie

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Has it ever happened to you,” Léon went on, “to come across some vague idea of one’s own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?

-Gustave Flaubert

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I’d never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote (“NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,

-John Green

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I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

-Lynne Sharon

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Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the ‘X-Men’ characters, for more than the action. I think that’s what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

-Hugh Jackman

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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don’t believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full...

-Jeanette Winterson

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If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

-M.F. Moonzajer

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A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there’s no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her – with absolutely no guarantee of nailing...

-Mick Foley

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I’ve always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

-Jonathan Ames

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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

-John Irving

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Es, pues, de saber que este sobredicho hidalgo, los ratos que estaba ocioso, que eran los más del año, se daba a leer.

-Miguel de

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And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you’re a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I’m beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.

-Nick Hornby

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If your friend wishes to read your ‘Plutarch’s Lives,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ or ‘The Federalist Papers,’ tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat – but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

-Mortimer J.

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