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Letter "B" » Books
«If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.»
«History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.»
Author: David C. McCullough
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature,
Reading
| Keywords:
attainments, betrayals, depravities, depths, heroes, monsters
«I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.»
«I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.»
«I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing--one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.»
«If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.»
Author: Rumer Godden
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
carpet, carpets, Persian, Persians, stitch, stitching, The Persians
«If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Books,
Censorship,
Freedom,
Literature,
Press
| Keywords:
censored, censors, lands, Land of the Free, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, the press
«How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
at present, dated, era, New Era, perchance, unutterable, uttered
«If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
guesses, set down
«If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all?except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.»
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