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Unnursvana
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quotas about books
what can I say... I love book and everything that has to do with them

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.“ - Paul Sweeney

“TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book.“

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.“
- Harold Kushner

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me“
- C.S.Lewis

“Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.“
- Marsha Norman

“You cannot open a book without learning something.“

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.“ - Oscar Wilde

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.“
- Garrison Keillor

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.“
- P. L. Travers

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.“
- Groucho Marx

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.“
- William Styron

“A book is the only immortality.“
- Rufus Choate

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way“ - Caroline Gordon

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.“ - Anatole Broyard

“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.“ - Christopher Morley

“I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men“ - Anatole France

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it“
- Mark Twain
“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence“ - Jan Morris

“My Book and Heart Must never part“

“We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.“
- Saul Bellow

“Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.“
- Mark Twain

“To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.“

“A book is a garden carried in the pocket“
- Salman Rushdie

“A book worth reading is worth buying.“
- John Ruskin

“No two persons ever read the same book.“
- Edmund Wilson

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.“
- William Somerset Maugham

“Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive“

“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author“ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before“
- Cliff Fadiman

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.“
- Salman Rushdie

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.“
- W. H. Auden

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.“
- Carl Sandburg

“In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.“
- Charlie Brown

“What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.“
- Lawrence Clark Powell
“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it“
- Toni Morrison

“Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.“
- Dwight David Eisenhower

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.“ - Thomas Wolfe

“Never judge a book by its movie“
- J. W. Eagan

“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.“ - Christopher Morley




 
 
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