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Books are a habit-forming drug.
Agatha Christie
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
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Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
Dorothea Benton Frank
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
Alan Bennett
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Samuel Butler
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Books are like my one and only joy.
John Lydon
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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
Maria Edgeworth
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Books cannot always please, however good Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson
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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
Trent Reznor
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Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.
Frank Bruni
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
Samuel Johnson
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
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Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
Paula McLain
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
Sara Sheridan
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Walter Pater
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
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Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
Margaret Deland
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
Henry David Thoreau
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Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.
Richelle Mead
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Books alone are liberal and free they give to all who ask they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.
Richard de Bury
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Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
Walter Benjamin
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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
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