"A book should be luminous not voluminous." — Christian Nestell Bovee

"A book should be luminous not voluminous."

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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180 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee has 180 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the…
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in…
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other…
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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