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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
'A gripping account of such originality as to expand the reader's own experience of life.' - New York Times
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| BookBrowse's Favorite Literary Quotes |
Famous literary quotes with a biography of each quoted person. |
"At times, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by a spark from another person"
"Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today ...." - Janusz Korczak
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought"
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion"
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people .... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he re-reads."
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us." - Beverly Sills
"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves"
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus
"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
There is no science without fancy and no art without fact
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions.
A few books well chosen, and well made use of ....
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure ....
A library is thought in cold storage - Herbert Samuel
A million monkeys....
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it .....
All my major works have been written in prison....
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics....
Be careful about reading health books....
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.
Chance favors the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur
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