"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."

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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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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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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

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"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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"You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

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"I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it."

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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

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"People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it."

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