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May 06, 2013 23:56

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
― Voltaire

Barbara Read, Deanna Durbin and Nan Grey (Three Smart Girls, 1936)

Marilyn Monroe

Brigitte Bardot

Irene Dunne

* Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
― Stephen Fry

* Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
― John Green, “An Abundance of Katherines

*Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
― Madonna, 1991 Interview

*This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
― Alfred Hitchcock

*Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.
― Anne Rice, “The Witching Hour

*Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
― Jane Yolen

*I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
― Haruki Murakami

*The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
― Dr. Suess, “I can read with my eyes shut!”

*There’s more to life than books, you know. But not much more.
― “Handsome Devil” - The Smiths

*There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
― Walt Disney

*It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
― Oscar Wilde

*Never judge a book by its movie.
― J. W. Eagan

*When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
― Mark Twain, “The Prince and the Pauper