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• I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

  Francoise Hardy

  Book, Our World, Forget Everything

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• I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

  Kate Spade

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

  Earl Warren

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.

  Debra Hamel

  Book, Ideas, Giving

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Book, Long

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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Bible, Book, League

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• [There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Book, India

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, You Like It

  "Vermischte Schriften". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1789-1793.

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• Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Fool

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• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

  Laini Taylor

  Fun, Smart, Book

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

  Bill Watterson

  Rain, Book, Reading

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dream, Book, Winter

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Believe, Book

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Pride

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• As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Book, Men, Circles

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• sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

  Jeannette Walls

  Book, Track, Library

  Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

  Stephen King

  Book, Together

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

  Tawni O'Dell

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

  Mark Driscoll

  Wise, Husband, Book

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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• An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

  Roger Ebert (2000). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.207, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  Book, People, Guilt

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Ifs

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.67, Shambhala Publications

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