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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make… — Meg Rosoff
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. — Georg Simmel
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid… — Arthur Smith
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. — Mark Twain
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… — George Eliot
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a… — H P Lovecraft
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table… — Robert Musil
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.… — Epictetus
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. — Arthur C. Clarke
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,… — Aldous Huxley
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike
I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a… — Markus Zusak
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me… — Scarlett Thomas
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing… — H P Lovecraft
The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his… — Dag Hammarskjold
Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were… — Reif Larsen
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that… — Fernando Pessoa
Gabbe jumped up and seized the cocanut first, giving its contents a sniff. "Arriane, she has just been through a trama," she scolded. Arriane tossed… — Lauren Kate
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head. — Cassandra Clare

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