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Letter "B" » Books
«There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.»
Author: Al Capp
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
critique, Karl, Karl Marx, origin, searcher, the Origin
«There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.»
«There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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Books
| Keywords:
eighteen, Forty eight
«These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.»
«There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.»
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Books
| Keywords:
best of all, enlarge, enlarging, to enlarge
«There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.»
Author: Josef Skvorecky
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Books,
Perfection
| Keywords:
exception, fall short, fall short of, influenced, ridiculous, The Age, weaknesses
«There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
enormous, left hand, poorly, redundancy, right-handed, right hand, the left, well-written, work on
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
preserving, worthless
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
at the bottom, In books, island, loot, looting, pirate, pirates, Spanish, Treasure Island
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