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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. -Clarence Day, writer, (1874-1935)
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. -J.D. Salinger, writer (1919- )
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. -Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
"Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me." Anatole France Novelist and Nobelist
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. -William Styron, novelist (1925-2006)
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. -Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)
When I get a little money I buy books; and If any is left I buy food and clothes -Desiderius Erasmus
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