Best Greatest Book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.”

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Author:Richard Lewis

“A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century”

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Author:Ronald Fisher

“Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.”

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Book:Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern

“I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.”

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Author:Graham Joyce

“The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading.”

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Author:Michael Silverblatt

“We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.”

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Author:Huey Long

“Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”

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Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.”

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Author:Romain Rolland

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Book:James and the Giant Peach

Source: James and the Giant Peach

“All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth”

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Author:Ranulph Fiennes

“What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.”