What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm XIn a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Mark TwainTags: wisdom libraries books bookroom
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel ProustTags: words reading books literature
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Jessamyn WestTags: truth books reality on-fiction
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
John BergerTags: reading books stories story
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G.K. ChestertonTags: books literature on-fiction
I was with book, as a woman is with child.
C.S. LewisTags: books
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de MontaigneTags: books
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.
William ShakespeareTags: books
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