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«A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.»
Author: Carl Sandburg (Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: Dead Man
«A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with»
«A book is the only immortality.»
Author: Rufus Choate | About: Books | Keywords: book, immortality
«A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.»
«A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.»
«A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three»
«A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond»
«A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: author, hero, novel
«A good book praises itself»
Author: German Proverb | About: Books
«A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: classic, praise, The Classics

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