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1681 Page quotes by 1247 unique authors
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Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same…
— Kris Radish
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows…
— J D Salinger
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Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for…
— Marcel Proust
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Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends…
— Tom Robbins
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No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
— Margaret Atwood
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I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the…
— Aaron Sorkin
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Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality.…
— Richard Bach
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The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
— Jack Kerouac
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his…
— Virginia Woolf
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles…
— Jasper Fforde
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You can't edit a blank page
— Nora Roberts
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must…
— Henry Miller
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Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and…
— Linda Pastan
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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
— Alberto Manguel
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
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This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
— Tracy Chevalier
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When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor,…
— Suzanne Weyn
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...
— Suzanne Weyn
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I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a…
— Shirley Jackson
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore…
— Laurence Sterne
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Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I…
— John Green
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,…
— Susan Vreeland
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,…
— Eudora Welty
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