Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...
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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.
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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...
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Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.
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There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
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The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.
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Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the pl...
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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength....
