James Joyce Quotes, Book Quotes, Singing Quotes

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

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A home without books is a body without soul.

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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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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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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

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The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

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I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

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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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