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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

Beauty, Great, Truth

It took me 40 years to write my first book.
Paulo Coelho

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
Paulo Coelho

Difficult, Read, Computer

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo Coelho

Free, Sales, Publishers

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.
Stephen King

Good, Bad, Often

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant

Future, True, Made

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland

Loneliness, Woman, Him

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray Bradbury

Friends, Old, Dead

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thoughts, Evidence, Join

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Heart, Head, Lead

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

Mind, Before, Rather

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Good, Today

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Tired, Between

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust

Days, Childhood, Perhaps

The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce

Far, Apart, Covers

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce

Empty, Dust, Skull

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

Work, Makes, Possible

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age, Great, Past

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin

Work, Nature, Write

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Poetry, Away, Nor

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Wonderful, Bed, Computer

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Great, Art, Words

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Greatest, Write

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Worth, Reading, Buying

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman

Nothing, Everything, Words

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

Sea, Within, Frozen

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins

Ignore, Off, Minds

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
Jeff Foxworthy

Down, Might, Value

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