That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a
More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Alan Hollinghurst, quote from The Line of BeautyīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, He pressed the volume back into place and closed the gilded cage.” Sometimes his memory of books he pretended to have read became almost as vivid as that of books he had read and half forgotten, by some fertile process of auto-suggestion. “No, this one is pretty good,” Nick said, gazing at the spine with an air of judicious concession. “To be honest, there’s a lot of him I haven’t yet read.” “Oh…yes…” said Nick, feeling doubly disqualified by his complete ignorance of money and by the aesthetic prejudice which had stopped him from ever reading Trollope. Lord Kessler paid a moment’s wry respect to this bit of showing off, but said, “Oh, Trollope’s good. What was it Henry James said, about Trollope and his ‘great heavy shovelfuls of testimony to constituted English matters’?”
“What have you found there?” said Lord Kessler, in a genially possessive tone. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut. “After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion.
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