All Quotes By Tag: Books
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
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“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
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“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
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“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
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“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
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“Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.”
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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
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“The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.”
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“You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.”
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