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    Dan Brown
    “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: books, dan-brown, religion, science
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    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    ― Alice Hoffman
    tags: books
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    Arnold Lobel
    “Books to the ceiling,
    Books to the sky,
    My pile of books is a mile high.
    How I love them! How I need them!
    I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
    ― Arnold Lobel
    tags: books, reading
    1833 likes

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    Carolyn G. Heilbrun
    “A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
    ― Amanda Cross
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    Edmondo de Amicis
    “Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai, — un villaggio senza scuole, — una lettera senza ortografia."

    ("A house without a library in it is without dignity, like a motel, or a city with no bookstores, a town without a school, or a misspelled letter.")

    [Pagine sparse]”
    ― Edmondo De Amicis
    tags: books, completeness, dignity, homes, imperfection, libraries
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    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.”
    ― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas
    tags: books, passion
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  • #7
    Neil Armstrong
    “Each book holds an experience and an adventure."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    ― Neil Armstrong
    tags: adventure, books, reading
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  • #8
    Norman Cousins
    “A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
    ― Norman Cousins
    tags: books, library
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    Amit Kalantri
    “Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.”
    ― Amit Kalantri
    tags: accept, acceptance, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, book-reading, books, everything, hobby-of-reading, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, read, reading, reading-books, reason, reasoning, think, thinking, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
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  • #10
    “God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”
    ― W.E. Channing
    tags: books
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    Robin Ince
    “I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.”
    ― Robin Ince, Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One Man's Quest to Uncover the Books that Time Forgot
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.”
    ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
    tags: books, memories
    87 likes

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  • #15
    Christopher Paolini
    “I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
    tags: books, christopher-paolini, eragon, reading
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    ― Barbara W Tuchman
    tags: books, humanity
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    Nusrat Sultana
    “A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.”
    ― Nusrat Sultana
    tags: books, characters, confidence, hope, inspirational, life, original, strength
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    Eugene Field
    “All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    ― Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
    tags: bed, bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading
    153 likes

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    Milan Kundera
    “Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
    ― Milan Kundera
    tags: books
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    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    ― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
    tags: books, inspirational, reading
    2764 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: books
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  • #22
    George Herbert
    “Woe be to him that reads but one book.”
    ― George Herbert
    tags: books, reading
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  • #23
    Books fall open, you fall in.
    “Books fall open, you fall in.”
    ― David T.W. McCord
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  • #24
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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  • #25
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: forgiveness, hiding-place
    2042 likes



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