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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
View quotes by Christopher Marlowe

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
View quotes by Henry Fielding

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
View quotes by Oswald Chambers

The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones
View quotes by Joseph Joubert

All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words
View quotes by Amy Lowell

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

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
View quotes by Jim Bishop

You can cover a great deal of country in books
View quotes by Andrew Lang

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
View quotes by Lionel Trilling

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
View quotes by Jackie Collins

Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
View quotes by David Baddiel

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
View quotes by E M Forster

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
View quotes by Wendell Ford

There's a million of those self-help books to tell you to just see it and believe it and it's going to happen. That's a great policy
View quotes by James Blake

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
View quotes by Mark Twain

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
View quotes by John Dawkins

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