"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Books, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Life

"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Books, Reading, Feelings

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

Books, Writer, Writing

"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."

Evan Dando, American Musician

Books, Memory, Right, Songs

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Books, Wisdom, Culture, Joy

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Books, Reading, Respect, Passion

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

Christian Slater, American Actor

Books, Day, Games, Play

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Books, Quest, Questions, Tomorrow

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

Books, Building, Luck, Result

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

Books, Numbers, Years

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

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"We must be doing something to be happy."

"Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours)."

"Words are the only things that last for ever."

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

"The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth."

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

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"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."