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“The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed”
Anthony Burgess quotes (English Novelist, Critic and Man of letter, 1917-1993)
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“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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“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 quotes (American Writer, 1807-1892)
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“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
Heinrich Heine quotes (German Poet and Writer, 1797-1856)
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
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“The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den”
Phillip Adams quotes
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“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence”
Jan Morris quotes
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“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus quotes (Dutch Priest, Humanist and Editor of the New Testament, 1469-1536)
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