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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.


Joseph Joubert

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BETTY SMITH The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDE As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. I...
OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDE After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN The world of books is still the world.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING It was filled with books. That was the first thing I noticed when I went in—how many books there w...
PAUL AUSTER Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my p...
MICHAEL CAINE He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G.K. CHESTERTON When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my...
ORHAN PAMUK It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
ROBERT FULGHUM The world of books is a heavenly paradise.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW May books spread the world over!
YANN MARTEL The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms...
CORNELIA FUNKE The world of books is my fantasy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The world of books is heavenly paradise.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books -...
DONALD TRUMP Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world...
ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for tho...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write ...
MICHAEL LEWIS Rice sold books that explored the darkest realms of the spiritual world. She dressed all in black. S...
DAVID KUO It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
JANE HAMILTON There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at...
LIN YUTANG There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
J.K. ROWLING Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on va...
LAURIE ANDERSON I travel to the ancient world by reading ancient books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of ch...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number ...
AARON SWARTZ There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewh...
DIANE SETTERFIELD I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...
LANGSTON HUGHES There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
STEVEN MOFFAT You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
THE DOCTOR Животът ми е пълен провал, но никой не го забелязва , за�...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around...
JOHN CHEEVER A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
MARK TWAIN A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
DIANE SETTERFIELD Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle c...
A. CRETAN Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, wh...
HOWARD STRINGER Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least val...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a dro...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
MICHAEL FOREMAN So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ...
ROALD DAHL The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their han...
KEVIN SYSTROM I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spe...
MAJ SJOWALL All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
VOLTAIRE I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act o...
STEVE MARTIN ...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie...
ROBERT GALBRAITH Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Every time I open her door, she's there on her bed with all her books spread out everywhere. She stu...
EETISHA RIDDLE The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things t...
NEIL GAIMAN When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
ALAN KING If I don't make movies, I'm okay too. I'll write books. I'll just sit here and watch the world go by...
BAI LING I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if ...
JONATHAN KOZOL His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA My mother was crushed by a World Enyclopedia
JAMES WALKER All of our books have to qualify under the vision of creating a world that works for all.
JEEVAN SIVASUBRAMANIAM The Big Book of Easy Suppers
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CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
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EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
DAVID BRIN There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
ROCCO DISPIRITO If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a ki...
TOM BROKAW A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power...
JUSTIN WINSOR Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
JULIA GLASS Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books h...
JOHN BURROUGHS I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an...
C.S. LEWIS There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
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JOSEPH JOUBERT You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Children need models rather than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Imagination is the eye of the soul.
JOSEPH JOUBERT One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough o...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ornaments were invented by modesty.
JOSEPH JOUBERT We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched...
JOSEPH JOUBERT We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Chance generally favors the prudent.
JOSEPH JOUBERT A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Space is the stature of God.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: t...
JOSEPH JOUBERT How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bo...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
JOSEPH JOUBERT They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
JOSEPH JOUBERT To teach is to learn twice.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Tenderness is the rest of passion.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people
JOSEPH JOUBERT If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ask the young. They know everything.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when peo...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Never cut what you can untie.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Children have more need of models than critics.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Great minds are those that disguise their limits, that mask their mediocrity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Words like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
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JOSEPH JOUBERT We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge
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JOSEPH JOUBERT The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it
JOSEPH JOUBERT Tenderness is the repose of passion.
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JOSEPH JOUBERT God has commanded Time to console the unhappy
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it
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JOSEPH JOUBERT In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared
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CATHERINE JOUBERT Don't let others change your ways; only better them.
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IRMA JOUBERT We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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JOSEPH BOLOGNA Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
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JOSEPH CONRAD When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
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JOSEPH BRODSKY People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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NAFISA JOSEPH I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
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NAFISA JOSEPH Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
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NAFISA JOSEPH I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Love is a friendship set to music.
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JOSEPH ADDISON Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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TYLER JOSEPH A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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JOSEPH ADDISON 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
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JOSEPH ADDISON I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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