#good book

I wanted to see if I could write a good book. ↗

— James D. Watson

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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold Kushner

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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. ↗

— Vin Scully

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Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

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You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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