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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

  Jane Yolen

  Book, Heart, Critics

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• What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Acting, Hints

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

  Kathleen Norris

  Happiness, Book, Long

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• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Spirit

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• If you want to be changed, read a good book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Book, Want, Changed

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• A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

  Rene Descartes

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Book

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Chocolate, Delicious

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• Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

  David McCullough

  Book, Rewards, Infinite

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 20, 2012

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• When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Twenties, Meals

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• A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Wall, Book, Horizon

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “10 People Every Christian Should Know (Ebook Shorts)”, p.63, Baker Books

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• You just have to work, we all have to work really hard to take care of ourselves and feed ourselves good information, just like we feed ourselves good food. Feed ourselves good books and good messaging and the things that make us feel like we can be connected with ourselves and others in a deeper way.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Care, Information

  Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.

  Alan Lightman

  Couple, Book, Years

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Book, Mind, Doe

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• Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book

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• There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Book, Has Beens

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Emotion, Fingers

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2013

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