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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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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 carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Books, Leisure, Knowledge, Life

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

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"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."

Man

"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."

Trust

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

Death

"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."

Love

"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."

Life

"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."

Man

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

Politics

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."

Art

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."

Man

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

Wisdom