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Books Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when…
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page…
- I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
- A room without books is like a body without a soul.
More Books Quotes
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- 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
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
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- 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
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