"The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on books - reading   

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on books - reading   

"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote."

Chesterfield, Lord on books - reading
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use."

Blackie, Professor on books - reading
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start."

Alexander, Shana on astrology   

"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."

Lawrence, D. H. on astrology   

"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on astrology
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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - bestsellers   

"Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have."

Bennett, Alan on books - classics
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"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."

Davies, Robertson on books - classics
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"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

Miller, Henry on books - classics
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels."

Williams, Dakin on angels
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"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."

Leo The Great on angels
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."

Keble, John on angels
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

Disney, Walt on entertainment
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source on romance and romanticism
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on angels
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"We are never like angels till our passion dies."

Denham, Sir John on angels
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"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

Francis De Sales, St. on angels
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers."

Barstow, Stan on books - reading
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Belloc, Hilaire on books - reading
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"Books are not men and yet they stay alive."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on books - reading
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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."

Berger, John on books - reading
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on books - reading
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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

Barrie, Sir James M. on books - reading
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"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."

Barrett, E.S. on books - reading
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"When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

Baldwin, James on books - reading
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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