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"The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar."
"After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off."
"A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity."
"My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind."
"It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else."
"I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry."
"I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated, you feel pressure to choose. I feel more comfortable living in the paradoxes that I've named and laid out, whereas when I started they might have felt like real agitations. At least I see them more clearly after having sketched them for myself and made a place to stand in relationship to them that felt okay enough to last through the course of a book."
"The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles."
"My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books."
"As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books."
"Let our lives be open books for all to study."
"To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record."
"Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety."
"Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart."
"I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at."
"Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas"
"Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?"
"Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything."
"So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum."
"Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt."
