"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."

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"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

Books, Leather, Cat, Humor

"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

Books, Fire

"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

Books, Knowledge, War, Idea

"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

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

Books, Classroom, Nothing, Teachers

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"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."

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

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"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."