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Letter "B" » Books
«For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.»
«Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept»
Author: Carl Becker
| About:
Books,
Influence,
Men,
Speech
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, generally accepted, influenced, notions, predisposed, suggest
«Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.»
«He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter»
Author: Isaac Barrow
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
cheerful, comforter, comforters, companion, counselor, effectual, wholesome
«Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners»
Author: Isaac Disraeli
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
accidents, besides, Borrowers, collections, damp, damps, rats, subject to, worms
«Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writers
| Keywords:
discern, instrument, optical, optical instrument, reader
«For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.»
«Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
finishing, out in, shot, took, yard
«He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books»
«For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, deity, disorderly, manifestly, obscure, permit, work permit
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