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Good Books Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of…
- If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy…
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
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- The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here… — Allan Bloom
- I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try… — Anthony Bourdain
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain
- Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer
- With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the… — Richard North Patterson
- There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams
- I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey
- A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the… — Justin Winsor
- The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros