"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

George Orwell, British Author

Books, Feeling, Job

"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Books, Memory, Freedom, Knowledge

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Books, Faith, Knowledge, Reading

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

Books, Childhood, Will

"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

Poul Anderson, American Writer

Books, Force, Trying

"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Books, Light, Contrast, Hope

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."

"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."