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"A book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Ezra Pound
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
George Orwell
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say"
Italo Calvino
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"
Jorge Luis Borges
"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
Louisa May Alcott
"I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me"
Michel Foucault
"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
Philip Roth
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them"
Ray Bradbury
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"
Rene Descartes
"Beware the man of a single book."
Thomas Aquinas
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge"
George R.R. Martin
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius
"I am a part of everything that I have read."
Theodore Roosevelt
"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Of all things, I liked books best."
Nikola Tesla
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world"
Malala Yousafzai
"The art of reading is to skip judiciously"
Alexander Hamilton
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me"
C. S. Lewis
"So many books, so little time"
Frank Zappa
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
Marcus Tullius Cicero