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This is an archive of quotes that have appeared in the Quotes section of Portal:Literature. More quotes in wikiquote:Books.
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{{cquote|Read in order to live.}}
::[[Gustave Flaubert]]
Today is March 30, 2007, week number 13.
- Week 1
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. |
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- Evan Esar
- Week 2
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I read part of it all the way through. |
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- Samuel Goldwyn
- Week 3
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. |
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- Oscar Wilde
- Week 4
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero (originally in Latin) & also attributed to G. K. Chesterton
- Week 5
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Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers. |
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- Kurt Vonnegut
- Week 6
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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom. |
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- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act 1 scene 2
- Week 7
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Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world. |
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- Nachman of Breslov
- Week 8
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You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye. |
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- Walter Pitkin, Art of Rapid Reading, 1930
- Week 9
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. |
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- Mark Twain
- Week 10
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Learn as much by writing as by reading. |
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- Lord Acton
- Week 11
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There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
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- Emily Dickinson
- Week 12
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Books do furnish a room. |
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- Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time, Vol. X
- Week 13
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. |
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- Salman Rushdie
- Week 14
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An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books..and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. |
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- Augustine Birrell
- Week 15
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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. |
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- Alfred Whitney Griswold
- Week 16
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- Week 17
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- Week 18
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. |
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- Francis Bacon, Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
- Week 19
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- Week 23
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Read in order to live. |
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- Gustave Flaubert
- Week 24
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
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- Mark Twain
- Week 25
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. |
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- James Ellroy
- Week 26
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. |
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- Ray Bradbury
- Week 27
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I have this kind of mind that's always cursed with having to know everything that you possibly can about something. |
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- Robert Caro
- Week 28
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. |
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- Robert Frost
- Week 29
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. |
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- Joseph Brodsky
- Week 30
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In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. |
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- André Maurois
- Week 31
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. |
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- Aldous Huxley
- Week 32
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
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- Edith Sitwell
- Week 33
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. |
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- Anonymous
- Week 34
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Where one begins by burning books, one will end up burning people. |
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- Heinrich Heine
- Week 35
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At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. |
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- Thomas à Kempis
- Week 36
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. |
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- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- Week 37
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. |
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- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
- Week 38
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Books are uniquely portable magic. |
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- Stephen King
- Week 39
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. |
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- Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa, 1980
- Week 40
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. |
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- Albert Camus
- Week 41
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. |
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- Bill Watterson, 1995
- Week 42
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books. |
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- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus, 1875
- Week 43
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. |
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- Voltaire
- Week 44
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...the book remains the carrier of civilization, the voice of the individual. |
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- Barbara Tuchman
- Week 45
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
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- Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- Week 46
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. |
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- Anatole Broyard
- Week 47
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When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is that always in the book? |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Original: "Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buche?"
- Week 48
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Oh for a book and a shady nook... |
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- John Wilson, Scottish writer, (1785 - 1854)
- Week 49
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Literature is news that stays news. |
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- Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
- Week 50
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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. |
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- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
- Week 51
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book. |
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- Austin Phelps (1820 - 1890)
- Week 52
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book — it makes a very poor doorstop. |
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- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
