Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that may be, like a cemetery, a library will never stop be...
Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance.
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.
You don't buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch. Do...
You're such a book girl.
The library was the best place in the world.
Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek
We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hop...
There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of li...
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other f...
But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes,...
I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his hou...
I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dicti...
Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves t...
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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