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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King
A true friend is someone who will always love you—the imperfect, the confused, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do.
R. J. L.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.
J.K. Rowling
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
Aldous Huxley
Friendship is the purest love.
Osho
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Unknown
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Reading brings us together and it is through literature that we learn to understand each other's hopes and fears.
Azar Nafisi
A good book is an event in my life.
Stendhal
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.
Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William Styron
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is the purest of all human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
Literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow member with fellow member. Most good authors are better than we are. They are much better company than our own friends.
Wendell Berry
The greatest gift of literature is its ability to help us understand others' experiences and feel empathy for their pain.
Cheryl Strayed
Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.
Margaret Atwood
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Literature is the most powerful means we have for communicating consciousness.
William James
Literature is a way to connect with others across space and time, to share our common humanity and to understand the world in new ways.
Lisa See
Literature is the most effective way to build empathy and understanding between people.
Azar Nafisi
Literature is the mirror in which we see our own lives reflected, and the lives of others we may never meet.
Anna Quindlen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen
A book is like a friend; it takes a long time to get to know one. But when you do, you should treasure it always.
L. R. W. Lee
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Reading brings us unknown friends.
Honoré de Balzac
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Stephen King
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Virginia Woolf
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Terry Pratchett
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
Diane Setterfield
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
Vera Nazarian
The stories we love best do live in us forever.
J.K. Rowling
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Stephen King
The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.
A.D. Posey
A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.
Lyman Abbott
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Alan Bennett
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
Neil Gaiman
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A book is like a friend; it takes your hand and opens new worlds to you.
Anonymous
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan
A good book is an adventure. It takes you to new places, introduces you to new people, and opens your mind to new ideas.
Unknown
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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