Carl Sagan Quotes, Book Quotes, Dark Quotes

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Christian Quotes , Book Quotes

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Book Quotes , Law Quotes

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

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I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Morning Quotes , Book Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Book Quotes

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

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Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

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There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

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