Book Quotes - Page 34

• I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, August

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.

  Paul Auster

  Demand, Active, Participants

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Might, Film

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

  Paul Auster

  Art, Past, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

  Andrew Lang

  Years, Faces, Return

  Andrew Lang (1892). “The Library”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

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• No book so bad but some part may be of use.

  Pliny the Elder

  Use, May

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• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Atheism, Evolution

  'Resuscitatio' (1657) 'Proposition touching Amendment of Laws'

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• The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

  Richard Wright

  Writing, Dark, Thinking

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

  Richard Curtis

  Writing, Faster, Checks

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• To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas.

  Michael Horton

  Bible, Jesus, Biblical

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Reading, Heart, Thoughtful

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• You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Study, Educated

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• Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Mind, Examination

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Bad Ass, Band

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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• Reading maketh a full man.

  Francis Bacon

  Reading, Men, Literacy

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

  Matthew Hale

  Wise, Morning, Hard Times

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• Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

  Sydney Smith

  Reading, Men, Library

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.353, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

  David Frost

  Funny, Dumb, Tomorrow

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• I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Believe, Men, Heaven

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• ... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Evil, Tests, Holy

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• Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Before Death, Holy, Good Work

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• And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Littles, Spirit, Lord

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• On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Soul, Deeds, Holy

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