Famous Literary Quotes & Biographies

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Famous literary quotes with a biography of each quoted person.

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"A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions." "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." "A few Books well chosen, and well made use of, will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library" "A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure..." "A library is thought in cold storage." "A million monkeys..." "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it..." "All my major works have been written in prison..." "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics..." "At times, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by a spark from another person." "Be careful about reading health books..." "Be sincere, be brief, be seated." "Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse." "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." "Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." "Choose an author as you would a friend." "Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it." "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." "Don't join the book burners..." "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." "Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them." "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." "Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion." "From the moment I picked your book up..." "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." "Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

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