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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."	Moses Hadas
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."	Jane Hamilton
"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more."	Sir John Harington
"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."	Helen Hayes
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."	William Hazlitt
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."	Heinrich Heine
"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."	Heinrich Heine
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."	John K. Hutchens
"[Book dedication:] To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible."	Al Jaffee
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."	Thomas Jefferson
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read."	Charles Jones
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."	Franz Kafka
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."	Helen Adams Keller
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