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Books Quotes by George Orwell
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
- The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards…
- Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,…
- Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
- It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product…
- And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less…
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude…
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
More Books Quotes
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine