Quotes on books

I Cant Write a Book Commensurate with Shakespeare, But I Can Write a Book by Me

Walter Alexander Raleigh
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Be Careful About Reading Medical Books. You May Die of a Misprint

Markus Herz
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A House Without Books Is Like a Body Without a Soul

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If I Knew What the Meanings of My Books Were, I Wouldnt Have Bothered To Write Them

Margaret Drabble
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The Book Publishing Industry Is Going To Be Wiped Off the Face of the Earth Soon

Matthew Yglesias
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Dont Join the Book Burners. Dont Think You Are Going To Conceal Faults by Concealing Evidence That They Ever Existed

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You Could Compile the Worst Book in the World Entirely Out of Selecting Passages from the Best Writers in the World

G. K. Chesterton
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Books Are Made Out of Books

Cormac McCarthy
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We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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