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#book

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #book




I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against one another. Boiled down to little black marks. Hair, eyes, voices, nails, legs, knocks on doors, walls, blood, beards, the sound of horseshoes, shouts. All docile, blindly obedient to the little black marks. The letters run in mad haste, now here, now there. The a's, f's, y's, k's all run. They gather together to create a horse or a hailstorm. They run again. Now they create a dagger, a night, a murder. Then streets, slamming doors, silence. Running and running. Never stopping. ↗


— Ismail Kadaré


#reading #obedience

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗


— Ezra Pound


#contents #deep #least #lived #man

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to. ↗


— Julie Rugg


#reading-books #addiction

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. ↗


— Glen Duncan


#humanity #judgement #literature #judgement

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. ↗


— Lani Wendt Young


#fiction #mythology #samoa #telesa-series #young-adult-book

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. ↗


— Holbrook Jackson


#procrastination #reading #procrastination

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you... ↗


— Colette


#self-help-book #words-of-wisdom #self-help

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. ↗


— Pat Conroy


#library #reading #life

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗


— Roberto Bolaño


#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#favorite-books #body






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