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Quotes on Books and Reading "When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?" ~~~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) ~~~ "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." ~~~ Chinese Proverb ~~~ "An ordinary man can... suround 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 ~~~ "Books are a uniquely portable magic." ~~~ Stephen King ~~~ "Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." ~~~ Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, "The Two Races of Men", 1822 ~~~ "Never judge a book by its movie." ~~~ J. W. Eagan ~~~ "A house without books is like a room without windows." ~~~ Heinrich Mann ~~~ "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get provocation and privacy." ~~~ Edward P. Morgan ~~~ "A good book should leave you ... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." ~~~ William Styron, interview, Writers At Work, 1958 ~~~ "Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." ~~~ William Hazlitt ~~~ "My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter." ~~~ Thomas Helm ~~~ "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." ~~~ Oscar Wilde ~~~ "Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book." ~~~ Christopher Morley ~~~ "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." ~~~ Abraham Lincoln ~~~ "The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television." ~~~ Andrew Ross ~~~ "I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage." ~~~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Pensees Diverses ~~~ "Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." ~~~ James Russell Lowell ~~~ "The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them." ~~~ Samuel Butler ~~~