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  • FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin
  • The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

    Men   Black   Desert  
    Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth (2013). “Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black”, p.137, Marvel Entertainment
  • I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

  • A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

    Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
  • She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

    War   Book   Different  
    Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan
  • A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

    Reading   Ice   Fantasy  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam
  • Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  • ‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

    Book   People   Favourite  
  • My first favourite book was Are You My Mother? A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.

    Mother   Book   Bird  
    "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.
  • Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

    Children   Book   Animal  
  • No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.

    Marcel Proust (1948). “Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings”
  • When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

    "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.
  • If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

    Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
  • I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

    Children   Book   Writing  
    "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
  • I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

  • I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.

    Song   Hate   Book  
  • If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014
  • The man who never reads lives only one.

    Reading   Men   Ice  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

    Book   House   Favourite  
  • It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

    Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)
  • The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

    James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag
  • [What's my favourite book?] It changes all the time.

    "Kevin Spacey answers your questions – as it happened". www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2014.
  • To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

    The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)
  • Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

    Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)
  • I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

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

    Funny   Life   Friendship  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press
  • To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

    Fear   Eye   Past  
  • You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

    Children   Book   Meals  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

    "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

    Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK
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