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#1

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: alchemist, books, ideas, movies

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#2

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”
― Kellie Elmore

tags: book-quotes, books, heaven, heaven-quotes, imagination, reading

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#3

“One life to read!”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

tags: book-junkie, books, read

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#4

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”
― A.M. Hudson

tags: books, inspirational, life-philosophy

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#5

“[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.”
― John Waters

tags: books, freedom, reading, wealth

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#6

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts

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#7

“A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.”
― Richard Denney

tags: author, books, inspirational, reading

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#8

“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”
― Whitney Brown

tags: books

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#9

“...books were better than travel.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

tags: books, travel

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#10

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)”
― William Styron

tags: books, literature

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#11

“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible through a kind of looking glass made of hard-board and cloth. The author’s voice resonated in the reader’s head with the same words that had resonated in his own as he wrote them. He spoke to the reader from the past. What he had witnessed, experienced, learned, and discovered would live forever. You only had to turn a page to travel in time.”
― Stephen Parrish

tags: authors, books, reading

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#12

“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, life, literature, reading

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#13

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
― Harper Lee

tags: books, reading, thinking

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#14

“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
― Julian Barnes

tags: books, reading

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#15

“I cannot see myself nowhere, except to be living in the land of books. Somewhere on a distant island exists an intellegence of pure thought, but a heart of an angel. This entity will be able to discern between the true wisdoms of life and a superficial reality. Speak and guide me on this unknown journey of education.”
― Patricia H. Graham

tags: books, education

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#16

“A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.”
― Douglas Jerrod

tags: books, companion, friend

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#17

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: books, fiction, possiblities

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#18

“The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.”
― Lauren Barnholdt, The Thing About the Truth

tags: books, kelsey, reading, the-thing-about-the-truth

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#19

“You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

tags: books, happy-endings

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#20

“They were old, their covers cracked and their bindings frayed, but as far as Gwendolyn was concerned that only made the words cocooned between their musty pages more precious.”
― Teresa Medeiros, The Bride and the Beast

tags: books

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#21

“This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: books, dejan-stojanovic, dwarf, dwarfs, height, heights, literature, literature-quotes, observe, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, self-imposed, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom, world

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#22

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: books, dejan-stojanovic, feelings, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, the-sun-watches-the-sun, thoughts, thoughts-on-life, wisdom

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#23

“For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: books, dejan-stojanovic, face, literature, literature-quotes, moment, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, smile, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom

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#24

“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: before, books, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, old-place, others, philosophy, place, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, side, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom

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#25

“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: accidents, books, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, precise, precision, quotes, right, the-sun-watches-the-sun, time, wisdom, wrong, wrong-right-time

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#26

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley

tags: books, bookworm, love

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#27

“A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.”
― Nusrat Sultana

tags: books, characters, confidence, hope, inspirational, life, original, strength

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#28

“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy about a book that hasn't given itself over to you yet--sometimes I'm the most inspired by imagining what the contents of an unread book might be. ~ Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude”
― Leah Price, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

tags: books, reading

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#29

“The end of reading is not more books, but more life.”
― George Holbrook Jackson

tags: books, life, reading

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#30

“So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., Paul

tags: books, comfort

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