#books

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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We cannot learn men from books. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

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Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

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