"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."

Books, Mind, Reading

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Books, Giving

"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

Books, End, Nothing, Study

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

John Milton, English Poet

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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

Voltaire, French Writer

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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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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Books, Humanity

"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

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"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

"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."

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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

"Read much, but not many books."

"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

"Books are humanity in print."

"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."

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"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."

"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."

"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."

"I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."