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 Every burned book enlightens the world.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
  Marcel Proust

 Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
  Truman Capote

 For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
  Spencer Tracy

 For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
  Amy Lowell

 Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept

 Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

 He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter

 Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.

 Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.

 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
  Henry David Thoreau

 I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote
  Robert Green Ingersoll

 I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands
  Seneca

 I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
  Thomas Jefferson

 I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin
  Lawrence Clark Powell


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