So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
– Roald Dahl
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
– Roald Dahl
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Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what’s inside will change your life, but sometimes you don’t even have to read it. Some times it’s a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven’t even had their spines cracked. “Why do you buy books you don’t even read?” our daughter asks us. That’s like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.
– Sarah Addison Allen
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
– Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
– William Styron
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If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it…yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.
– Cornelia Funke
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
– The Fault in our Stars (John Green)
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I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength.
– Terri Goodkind
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
– Bjork
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not had pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
– Jane Austen
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for a frozen sea inside us.
– Franz Kafka
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I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.
– Karen Marie Moning
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
– Paul Theroux
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get provocation and privacy.
– Edward P. Morgan
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People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won’t eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don’t know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel fucked up and sad.
– Going Bovine (Libba Bray)
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Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.
– William Faulkner
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