My Favorite Random Book Quotes

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain


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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain


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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

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The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Norman Cousins

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies

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