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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom."

Thinking Book Character
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

Book Reading Sound
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window."

Book Sleep Talking
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Tracy Letts Playwright, Actor
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"My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love."

Book Simple Onions
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Rian Hughes Graphic Novelist
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"How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?"

World Book Song
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Richard Adams Author
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"I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it."

Children Want Book
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"It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books."

Book Support Alive
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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers."

Thinking Book Educational
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce."

Book Dream Memories
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help."

Book Teacher Gratitude
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Gabrielle Bernstein Author, Speaker
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"You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that's where healing can truly begin."

Book Doctors Healing
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"He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."

Book Library Bricks
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Florence King Author
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"I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books."

Book Jobs Expression
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Italo Calvino Writer
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"You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst."

People Book Journey
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post."

Book Science Dark
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Frank Smith Author
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"Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed."

Writing Book Song
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

Book Inspiring Anniversary
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien."

Book School Profound
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