Quotes about books
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A house without books is like room without windows Horace Mann
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a great compliment, but I don't write books like hers. Christopher Paolini
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You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
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And nobody ever picked up on it, and, of course, they wouldn't, So maybe these books do serve some purpose. Robert Hunter
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All the wins are great, but I'd rather be on the right side of that book. Pete Tilman won a New England championship, and I don't consider myself the greatest wrestler in Sharon history because I don't have a New England title to back that up.
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine
bookstores ifs
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? Rachel Cohn
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You don't have to go buy your book.
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You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago. Candace Bushnell
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The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there. Gene Nelson
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling. John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The Gainesville Chamber of Commerce organized a drive to collect books to be donated to the Gainesville Victory ship. Two hundred books were collected.
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The fourth graders raised more than $3,500 that was earmarked to purchase books for the Bay-Waveland School District. We want to raise more money to purchase the remaining books that are needed.
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The funny thing is, as a young person I was trying to write prose, and I wrote a lot of it, but I was never satisfied with the results. Two of the novels I wound up finishing and publishing later I started very early on, in my early 20's, In The Country Of Last Things and Moon Palace. Both of those books I worked a great deal on but never quite got a grip on either one. Paul Auster
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The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
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The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books. Melanie Rawn
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The final week before Christmas saw our record books rewritten, once again. Gareth Thomas
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The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark. Steve Erickson
bookstores online said
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. Paul Krugman
bookstores moved
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. Erik Larson
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. Larry McMurtry
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple Gene Wilder
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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Roy Blount, Jr.
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. William Goldman