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    Dodie Smith
    “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: first-sentence
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    Jean Cocteau
    “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: cats, home
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    Italo Calvino
    “Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
    tags: books, home, reading
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
    tags: books
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
    6059 likes

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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
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    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
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    Ray Bradbury
    “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: books, magic, universe
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    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
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    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
    tags: books, readers, reading
    991 likes

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: books, companionship, friends, friendship, god, reading, religion
    901 likes

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    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    ― Edmund Wilson
    tags: books, perspective, reading
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    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: books, literature, meaning, power, words
    763 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
    ― Proust-M
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
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    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
    ― Thomas a Kempis
    tags: books, literature, peace, reading, rest, words
    565 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “There is no Frigate like a Book
    To take us Lands away
    Nor any Coursers like a Page
    Of prancing Poetry –
    This Traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of Toll –
    How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears a Human soul.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
    tags: literature, poetry, words
    515 likes



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