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BOOKS: There is no friend as loyal as a book. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist, 1899-1961)
BOOKS: Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)
BOOKS: No two persons ever read the same book. (Edmund Wilson, U.S. writer and critic who explored Freudianand Marxist themes, 1895-1972)
BOOKS: Our backs tell stories our books have no spine to carry. (Rupi Kaur, Indian-Canadian poet, writer, illustrator, and performer, Born 1992)
BOOKS: When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. (Clifton Fadiman, U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)
BOOKS: A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (William Styron, U.S. novelist, essayist, and recipient of major literary awards, 1925-2006)
BOOKS: There is no friend as loyal as a book. (Ernest Hemingway, U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)
BOOKS: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)
BOOKS: Books are humanity in print. (Barbara Tuchman, U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, 1912-1989)
BOOKS: A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. (Franz Kafka, German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)
BOOKS: No two persons ever read the same book. (Edmund Wilson, U.S. writer and critic who explored Freudianand Marxist themes, 1895-1972)
BOOKS: A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie, British Indian novelist and essayist, Born 1947)
BOOKS: Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. (Charles W. Eliot, U.S. academic who was the longest serving president of Harvard University, 1834-1926)
BOOKS: Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. (Anatole France, French novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate, 1844-1924)
BOOKS: If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. (Arthur Helps, English writer, 1813-1875)
BOOKS: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)