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  Books Quotes - It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words   “To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris   “The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our li...

  Books Quotes - I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please   “Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas   “..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.” ― Noam Chomsky, Occupy   “What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be...

  Books Quotes - What is a book? Is it the binding, the ink, the pages, or the sum of the words contained?   “All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.” ― Katherine Paterson   “I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever   “The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.” ― Stéphane Mallarme   “I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go   “I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..” ― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty  ...