QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the
world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.
-Werner Lansburgh

Booklovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly,
and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie
and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconsciously as the
dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. -Robertson Davies

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more
intensely for the reading of it. -Elizabeth Drew

No furniture is so charming as books. -Sydney Smith

A book is a garden carried in the pocket. -Arabian proverb

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help
section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Sometimes you can't look up the correct spelling of a word in the
dictionary because you don't know how to spell it.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in
profit. -Amos Bronson Alcott

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them. -Mark Twain

My books are water, those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody
drinks water. -Mark Twain