Bookish Quotes I Love

24 Apr, 2014 by in Uncategorized 4 comments

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ― Groucho Marx

 

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” 
― Charles William Eliot

 

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King

 

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

 

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” ― Lemony Snicket

 

“Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.” ― George R.R. Martin

 

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ― Maya Angelou

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller

 

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes — characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.” ― Diane Setterfield

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