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Letter "B" » Books
«The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
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Books
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absorbed, absorbing, relation to
«The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history»
«The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity»
Author: John Sullivan Dwight
| About:
Books,
Christianity
| Keywords:
bible, eternity, look into, prison, The Bible, window
«The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.»
«The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.»
«The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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Books
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awaken, meeting of minds, Meet The, peculiar, recommend, recommended, recommending, recommends, rivet, rivets, The Natural, thirst
«The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.»
«The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Books,
Catholicism,
Religion
| Keywords:
Book of, Great Books, remained, righteously
«The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Books
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childhood, countries, Country Life, fabulous, map, mind reading, odd, reads, retreat, retreats, series, the books, throughout, World Series
«The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any»
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