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"...life very now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened." Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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In the Highest Civilization the Book is Still the Highest Delight.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
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[my apologies if these were already posted]

'There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.'
-Charles Dickens

'Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.'
- Marcel Proust

'This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.'
- Dorothy Parker

'Books, the children of the brain.'
- Jonathan Swift

'Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.'
- Anatole France

'Life is valuable - when completed by the imagination. And then only.
- William Carlos William
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Though these don't fit here exactly, both of these describe reading perfectly for me.
Michael Ende wrote:If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.
From The Neverending Story
Laurence Sterne wrote: Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments ! Long, long since had he number'd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground; when my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scatter'd over with rose-buds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthen'd and refresh'd
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What is grief, if not love persevering?

Grief is just love with no place to go.
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"If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else." ~Inkheart, Caroline Funke
"It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place" ~Inkheart, Caroline Funke
"For him that stealeth,or borroweth and returneth not,this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.
Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted.
Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever.

Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain" ~Inkheart, Caroline Funke
"Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world." ~Inkheart, Caroline Funke
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"There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate". - L. de Montesquieu

"You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be --
I had a mother who read to me". - Strickland Gillilan

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting". - Edmund Burke

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach". - William Godwin
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"Good ideas generate only by good reading"
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." George R. R. Martin
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I have my own version about books and reading.

Books are doors to enter while reading is trying to live inside of it.
-G.A Ebonia

For I open a door without a doubt that I might do something wrong because in that door I learn and never making a mess with someone just something.
-G.A Ebonia
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"If you want to know what a man is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"We all have both light and dark inside us, what matters is the side we choose to act on. That's who we really are."

"It does not matter what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"The ones that love us never really leave us."

"Books? And cleverness? There are more important things. Friendship, and bravery."


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Post by vibha_sood »

Thanks for the awesome collection of the quotes on books.

The best part about the quotes is that a reader can relate to it.

I liked :

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

Thanks & Regards,
Vibha
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A great book means you can't put it down.

-- 31 Aug 2015, 00:15 --

Pages of enjoyment!

-- 31 Aug 2015, 00:16 --

I make time to read each and everyday.
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never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." -lemony snicket
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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.”
― Carl Sagan

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world"
- Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
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A good book empowers us the ability of holding a vessel in our hands that removes us from the every day stresses of life. A method of escapism, exercising the gift of knowledge and the thrill of adventure. It encourages patience and perseverance in a life where it is aparant patience is lost.

Me- Abi Smith
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