"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

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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

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Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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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

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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

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"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

Maurice Sendak, American Artist

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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

George Orwell, British Author

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Stephen King, American Author

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again."

Literature

"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."

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"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."

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"Something was dead in each of us,and what was dead was hope."

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"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

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"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."

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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."

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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."

"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."

"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again."

"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."

"My Salome is a mystic the sister SalammbA - a Saint ThA©rA se who worships the moon."

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"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."

"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."

"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."