Book Quotes

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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. — Daniel J. Boorstin
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. — Alain de Botton
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. — Alain de Botton
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had… — Anthony Bourdain
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know… — Anthony Bourdain
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -… — Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have… — Ray Bradbury
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. — Jo Brand
I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection… — Jo Brand
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might… — Jo Brand
Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a… — Jo Brand
Man is what he reads. — Joseph Brodsky
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book,… — Joseph Brodsky

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