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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.


William Styron

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CHRIS RASCHKA Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book.
JACENT MARY MPALYENKANA When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes par...
DAVID FERRY How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, inclu...
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HOWARD WOLFSON Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
JANE AUSTEN I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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GEORGE WOODCOCK When death finds you at gunpoint, you should know when you shall leave.
RICK PARKS Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
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KHALIL GIBRAN If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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MEL GIBSON If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
PROVERB If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
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HORACE If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
ALAN FURST Kisses should not leave you satisfied.
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CHARLES BLOOM The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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MICHAEL LANDON Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life...
POPE PAUL VI Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life...
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LOREN EISELEY Exercise doesn't have to leave you exhausted for it to make a difference to your health.
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HUBERT MARTIN In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
MARGARET ATWOOD [while fighting with Obi-Wan] You should not have come back!
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
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WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES