Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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'The Good Book' - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
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You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. . . . What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
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A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
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I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
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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.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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All good things are strong inducements to life, even that good book written to attack life.
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A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever
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You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
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