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Quotations by Subject: Books (82 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.: Nora Ephron
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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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 Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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No good deed goes unpunished.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.: Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
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