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#books

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #books




Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ↗


— J.K. Rowling


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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. ↗


— David Foster Wallace


#infinite-jest #books

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#bookstore #towns #books

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗


— Horace Mann


#house #simile #windows #books

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗


— Jane Austen


#catherine #or-the-bower #books

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. ↗


— Franz Kafka


#castle #self #books

My library is an archive of longings. ↗


— Susan Sontag


#library #longing #books

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ↗


— Franz Kafka


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When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. ↗


— Colin Firth


#reading #novel

We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today. ↗


— Cory Doctorow


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