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186 quotesYou've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Books - Reading
Spike Lee
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Selfishness
Oscar Levant
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Books - Reading
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Theology
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Books - Reading
Abraham Lincoln
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All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
Jesus Christ
David Livingstone
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
Morality
John Locke
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All books are either dreams or swords.
Books - Reading
Amy Lowell
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Books - Reading
James Russell Lowell
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Poetry and Poets
James Russell Lowell
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Books - Reading
James Russell Lowell
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Books - Reading
Martin Luther
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer
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Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Books - Reading
Stephane Mallarme
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books - Reading
Katherine Mansfield
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx
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There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Libraries
Thomas L. Masson
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I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
Listening
Walter Matthau
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Books - Reading
Marshall Mcluhan
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville
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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken
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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Crime and Criminals
Owen Meredith
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Books - Reading
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Books - Reading
John Milton
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Books and marriage go ill together.
Books - Reading
Moliere
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun