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1 " Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. "
― Bertrand Russell
2 " A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. "
― Richard Flanagan , The Narrow Road to the Deep North
3 " A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound. "
4 " Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
5 " The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it. "
6 " Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never...intended. So they said to one another: " Let's join together and make a great book that will last forever that will mock the credulity of man...We'll include all the most preposterous old wives' tales now current. We'll choose the keenest satirist alive to compile a deity from all the deities worshipped by mankind, a deity who will be more magnificent than any of them, yet so weakly human that he'll become a byword for laughter the world over- and we'll ascribe to him all sorts of jokes and vanities and rages, in which he'll be supposed to indulge for his own diversion, so that the people will read our book and ponder it, and there'll be no more nonsense in the world. "
7 " It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. "
― Guy Gavriel Kay
8 " A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. "
9 " The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. "
10 " There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. "
