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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
Haile Gebrselassie

I often reread books I have written.
Taylor Caldwell

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Patton Oswalt

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
Bell Hooks

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
bell hooks

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
Bruce Springsteen

I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft

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