Best My Book Thoughts
252 My Book quotes by 223 unique authors
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Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A…
— R. D. Laing
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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers,not on the…
— Stanley Kunitz
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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
— Stephen King
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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my cloak…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.
— James Joyce
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But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
— Bryce Courtenay
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was…
— Tanith Lee
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Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it…
— Nicole Krauss
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If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that…
— Patricia Briggs
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My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on…
— Alice Sebold
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I…
— Sherman Alexie
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Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him,…
— Christopher Pike
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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a…
— Flannery O'Connor
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You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna…
— John Mayer
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(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.
— Emily Giffin
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their…
— William Shakespeare
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I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...
— Laurie R. King
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If…
— Rita Mae Brown
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At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when…
— Nicole Krauss
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