Amazing Book Quotes

• It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 03, 2014

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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  Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

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• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2014

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Want Something, Interesting

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• What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods," about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is "A Short History of Nearly Everything."

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

  Grace Paley

  Book, Reality, Heartbreaking

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• One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Design, Sometimes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

  Josh Lieb

  Book, Writing, People

  Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.161, Penguin

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• If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

  Mel Gibson

  Book, Together, Stories

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Games, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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