
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
– Nicholson Baker
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- Who cares about my ????? It’ll fend for itself. – Nicholson Baker
- The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback. – Nicholson Baker
- If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. – Boris Pasternak
- Books are readable drugs. – Carla H Krueger
- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
- Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. – EM Forster
- But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory? – Jeanette Winterson
- Character is just an invention, but it’s an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. – Broken Verses – Kamila Shamsie
- A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health. – Roger Scruton
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer
- No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me. – Sara Raasch
- What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
- Time is manmade! It is simply an invention! Believe it or not, time only exists here on earth for us humans. – Stephen Richards
- You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage. – Jacob Hoye
- She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form. – Kami Garcia
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs. – Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
- How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
- Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don’t feel comfortable in our own skin. – Michele McKnight Baker
- Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention -“ though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it. – Christopher Isherwood
- Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher
- We read to know we’re not alone. – William Nicholson
- My environment reflects the life I’ve led, the places I’ve visited and the people I’ve loved. – Virginia Nicholson
- The rain fell like dead bullets. – Scott Nicholson
- Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can’t figure out how in the hell to communicate with people. – Scott Nicholson
- Perception is like painting a scenery – no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. – Abhijit Naskar
- … a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. – George RR Martin
- The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism. – Abhijit Naskar
- Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. – Christina Baker Kline
- If God exists, he exists for all of us – Sandesh Hukpachongbang
- All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists. – Prakhar Bansal
- We do not believe that light exists in spite of darkness. We believe that light exists because of it. – Sharon Bayliss
- Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other. – Keri Arthur
- If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise – Neil Jain
- The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed. – Amit Ray
- No matter where you are–no matter what happens to you–always be kind and always be loving. – Debasish Mridha MD