A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Henry Brooke
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A book that impresses me
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
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A conversation
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
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A great book
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
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Alone with a good book
I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.
Vin Scully
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An anchor
A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Better than any drugs
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller
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Deeper
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes
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Don’t even try
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
Fran Lebowitz
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Force
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Gustave Flaubert
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It comes as sincerely from the author’s soul
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
Aldous Huxley
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One of the joys of a really good book
One of the joys of a really good book is that you’re so into the world of the book, you forget what you’re looking at is words on a page.
Rick Yancey
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Over and over again
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Precious lifeblood
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
John Milton
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Preferably in that order
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
Madeleine Albright
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The best of a book
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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The best of friends
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The books that help you most
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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Thee who destroys a good book…
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
John Milton
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Worth buying
A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin
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You know you’ve read a good book
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.