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“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”

Book:Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

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“Are you still with this man? On no, She sniffed. I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf. No bookshelf? In his house. Not even a little one in his loo for the Reader's Digest. Many people in this country don't read books. He didn't have one book. Not even a true crime. Or a Jeffrey Archer. I mean, what does that tell you about someone's character?”

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Book:Paris for One

Source: Paris for One

“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.”

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Book:The Case of Jack the Nipper

Source: The Case of Jack the Nipper

“He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity’s engine.”

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Book:It

Source: It

“It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.”

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Author:Nella Last

“O my darling books…how dear to me are they all! For have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all! It seems as if, by long and sweet companionship, you had become part of myself.”

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Author:Antoine Issac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy

“I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.”

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Book:Hanging Mary

Source: Hanging Mary

“I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.”

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Book:Torn From the Inside Out

Source: Torn From the Inside Out

“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used they remind us that the act of reading is an act of confidence, and almost of conspiracy, between one human being and another. That conspiracy can get nowhere, and that confidence can be betrayed. But if all goes well the reader may put down the book at the end and say what the author - and this author is no exception - most wants to hear:'I learned a lot from your book, but what is more to the point is I had a very good time.”

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Book:The Meanings Of Modern Art. Complete Set

Source: The Meanings Of Modern Art. Complete Set

“On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.”

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Book:If I Resist

Source: If I Resist

“A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.”

Source: Boost Your Self Esteem

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