Few Books Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal…
— Loretta Chase
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Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans…
— Andrei Lankov
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The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on…
— Jack Canfield
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
— Aldous Huxley
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There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
— Thomas Paine
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a…
— William Carlos Williams
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I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books…
— Matt Groening
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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and…
— Emanuel Celler
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them;…
— William Styron
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a…
— Robert Genn
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
— Paloma Faith
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People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling…
— Tom Felton
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I grew up in a house with very few books.
— Ken Livingstone
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
— Mortimer Adler
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I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as…
— Melissa Marr
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Impossible. I merely brought the essentials. Clothes, my favorite boots, face cream, makeup, a few books to read, a couple cans of caviar, lingerie, and…
— Gena Showalter
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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on…
— Daniel Handler
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I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at…
— Doris Lessing
Who Wrote These Few Books Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Few Books Quotes as follows: