"The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them."

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Anatole Broyard

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Night Quotes

“This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.”
“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”
“Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.”
“Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.”
“Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.”
“It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Political movements always belong to the young.”
“A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.”

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