Book Quote by Joe Queenan

“Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.”

Joe Queenan

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“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”

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As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's…

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Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read…

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“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.”

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Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually…

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My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain.…

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“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”

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Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

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A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the…

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Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

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“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”

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Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone…

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