#boo

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. ↗

— Donna Leon

#because #book #books #happens #i

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#bestseller #book #bragging #copied #first

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

I love to both give and receive very old books. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#both #give #i #i love #love

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#appearing #books #cds #commercials #cover

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. ↗

— Mara Liasson

#battleground #because #being #boost #changing

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early