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- Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
- There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
- P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_)
- Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club.
- Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
- They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
- The Book of Joshua 6:21
- Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
- "The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
- Ashley Montague
- Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
- Peter S. Prescott
- The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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