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• I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

  Rachel Nichols

  Believe, Book, Home

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• When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

  Thomas Watson

  Book, Heart, Clothes

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• I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

  James D. Watson

  Book, Writing, Wanted

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• There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Adults, Needs

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• Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Giving, Effort

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• I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Library, Messengers

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

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• It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Book, Small Numbers

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.8373, Delphi Classics

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• It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Reading, Richness Of Life

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• If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Substance, Tvs

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• Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

  Michele Jaffe

  Girl, Book, Reading

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• A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Drunk

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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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. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Reading

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

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• The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

  Stephen Colbert

  Summer, Book, Home

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• I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Book, Example

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• Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

  Stanislaw Lem

  Book, Different, Way

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “More Tales Of Pirx The Pilot”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Memories, Book

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

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• Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Real, Book

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Book, Character, Keys

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• Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Self

  "Complete Poems and Major Prose".

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• My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

  Robin Gibb

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

  Moby

  Book, Home, Nerd

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

  Chris Klein

  Book, Sunday, Feet

  "Chris Klein, 'American Reunion' Star, On Being Left Out Of 'American Wedding' And Life After His 'Mamma Mia' Audition". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Book, Garden, London

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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