Stealth Readers

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Are we not like two volumes of one book? - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

When I want to read a book, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

A good title is the title of a successful book. - Raymond Chandler

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. - Anderson Cooper

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. - Ernest Hemingway

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. - Dwight L. Moody

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

When a book and a head come into contact and one of them sounds hollow, is it always the book? - Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G M Trevelyan

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them, the other hidden. - Jonathan P Senn

The Bible, if ya read it you'd know. It's right in the beginning there, in the Book of Generous. - Archie Bunker

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Atwood H Townsend

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey

Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. - H.P. Lovecraft