"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

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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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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"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

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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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"The proper study of mankind is books."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Books, Mankind, Study

"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Books, Contempt, Desire, Glory

"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around."

John Irving, American Novelist

Books, Influence, Learning, Family

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"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

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

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"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."

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

"The proper study of mankind is books."

"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"

"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."

"I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around."

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"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

"Telling lies does not work in advertising."

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

"Value your words. Each one may be the last."