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You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.
Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
It's good that I've put out different books apart from 'After' - and before the film comes out.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
A well-run, well-stocked library with access to great books as well as the Internet is essential.