„Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.“

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— William Ewart Gladstone

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William Ewart Gladstone

britischer Politiker 1809 - 1898

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„If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.“

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— Beverly Cleary American writer of children's books 1916

„It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.“

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— Lev Grossman, buch The Magician's Land

Quelle: The Magician's Land

„[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop… You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!“

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— Stephen Fry English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist 1957

Room 101 (2001)
2000s

„Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.“

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— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824

„I now bid you a welcome adoo.“

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— Artemus Ward American writer 1834 - 1867

The Shakers.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)

„If any of you ever go into the pulpit "simply upon the cold legs of custom," be very careful to take a manuscript with you. But if you go to speak to the assembly because your mind is full of the truth, and you long to impart that truth to them, for their sake and for God's sake, — then charge your mind with it, and speak with all the force you can give it, without any notes.“

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— Richard Salter Storrs American Congregational clergyman 1821 - 1900

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 483.

„Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.“

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— Laurence Sterne, buch The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 22.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

„Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.“

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— Swami Vivekananda Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863 - 1902

Pearls of Wisdom

„When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.“

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— Robert Murray M'Cheyne British writer 1813 - 1843

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 39.

„I am Dracula…. I bid you welcome.“

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— Garrett Fort screenwriter 1900 - 1945

Dracula, welcoming Harker to his castle
Dracula (1931)

„Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.“

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— Sören Kierkegaard, buch Stages on Life's Way

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

„It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak.“

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— Samuel R. Delany, buch Equinox

Equinox (1973)
Kontext: It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind. (p. 163)