Quotes on books

one way tolerating existence lose oneself literature a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert
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something wonderful a book. pick up. heft it. read it. set down. think — Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing Something: Ten Neglected Virtues Heal Hearts Homes

Gordon B. Hinckley Homes Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts
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Thus rediscovered writers known (and told us again): books speak books — Umberto Eco, Postscript Name Rose

Postscript to the Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
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imagine no greater bliss lie about, reading novels day. — Julia Quinn, Ten Things Love

Julia Quinn Ten Things I Love About You
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believe today ever a book sought even one great page it. search fragme — Henry Miller, Tropic Cancer

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
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Books – best antidote marsh-gas boredom vacuity — George Steiner

George Steiner
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Insensibly formed delightful habit world, habit reading: know thus pro — W. Somerset Maugham, Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
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books divisible two classes: books hours, books Time. — John Ruskin, Sesame Lilies

John Ruskin Lilies Sesame
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[Public] libraries open all—except c — John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy
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us read love anything, feel bookstores way people feel jewelers… — Anna Quindlen, Reading Changed Life

Anna Quindlen How Reading Changed My Life
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