Friday, December 21, 2007

Books

Well, books are probably my favorite thing in the world. Or one of my favorite things anyway. Like Erasmus says: "If I have a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.”
So here are my favorite quotes about Books and Reading.

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”

-Henry David Thoreau

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”

-Garrison Keillor

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”

-Mark Twain

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

-Mark Twain

“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.”

-Paul Sweeney

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”

-Gilbert Highet

“A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.”

-Mark Twain

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”

-Toni Morrison

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”

-Anatole Broyard

“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

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