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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

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Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

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My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

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I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, "I support you."

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

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I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

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I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

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The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

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