Books Quotes - Some books leave us free and some books make us free

Books Quotes - Some books leave us free and some books make us free

“Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.”

― Melissa Marr

“Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.”

― Gloria Mallette

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

― John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies

“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”

― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”

― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“Come with me,' Mom says.

To the library.

Books and summertime

go together.”

― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me

“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”

― Philip Pullman

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”

― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.”

― Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

― Ezra Pound

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”

― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.”

― John Berry

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