Alan Dershowitz Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Book Quotes

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

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Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

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May books and nature be their early joy!

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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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