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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
Writers and Writing
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Books - Reading
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
Books - Reading
John Morely

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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Books - Reading
William Murray

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Writers and Writing
Vladimir Nabokov

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Brevity
Friedrich Nietzsche

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Age and Aging
Arnold Palmer

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Books - Reading
Dorothy Parker

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The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Quotations
Thomas Love Peacock

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Books - Reading
Ezra Pound

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Childhood
Marcel Proust

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A wicked book cannot repent.
Books - Reading
Proverb

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This book fills a much-needed gap.
Books - Reading
Hadas In A Review.

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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
Mind
Terry Riley

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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Books - Reading
Jim Rohn

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The book you don't read won't help.
Books - Reading
Jim Rohn

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Reality
Jean Rostand

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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Books - Reading
Jean Rostand

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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Publishing and Publishers
Philip Roth

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie

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A book worth reading is worth buying.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin

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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin

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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun