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Book Quotes - Page 23

We become the books we read.

Matthew Kelly (2012). “The Four Signs of A Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World”, p.64, BookBaby

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

Gregory Corso (1976). “Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8”, p.105, City Lights Books

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, Patricia Railing (2000). “For the Voice”, The MIT Press

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

"Dave Mustaine's Advice for the Next President". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.154, Wordsworth Editions