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Books are the basis purity is the force preaching is the essence utility is the principle.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. Byatt
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Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
A.M. Homes
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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking that's so insightful! that changes everything, but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
Aaron Swartz
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
Abraham Cowley
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
Adriana Trigiani
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Books are a habit-forming drug.
Agatha Christie
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
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Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
Al Jaffee
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
Alan Bennett
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Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
Alan Bennett
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Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.
Alberto Manguel
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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
Alberto Manguel
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Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.
Alec Baldwin
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
Alexander Smith
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Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
Alexander Theroux
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Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Alexandra Ripley
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
Ali Smith
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Books may well be the only true magic.
Alice Hoffman
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Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about.
Alice Sebold
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