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- It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
- Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Oh for a book and a shady nook...
- John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
- You can cover a great deal of country in books.
- Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
- 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 (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
- There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
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