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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”
William Styron
“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.”
Harper Lee
“I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands”
Seneca
“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
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude”
Voltaire
“A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.”
Norman Cousins
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Robertson Davies
“My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water”
Mark Twain
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
Thomas Helm
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all”
Abraham Lincoln
