Top 15 Quotes About Commonplace Books

#1. My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun?

Tara Sivec

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#2. The greatest experience open to man then is the recovery of the commonplace. Coffee in the morning and whiskeys in the evening again without fear. Books to read without that shadow falling across the page.

Peter De Vries

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#3. Stay out there! Don't you dare come back in here with those evil mind tricks! (Simone)
Does it buy me any bonus points to note that you have a really nice looking ass? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#4. When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Eckhart Tolle

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#5. For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.

Lemony Snicket

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#6. The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#7. Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

Marcus Aurelius

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#8. For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams ...

M.F.K. Fisher

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#9. The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

Emmett Shear

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#10. Sometimes we need to fight for peace.

Veronica Roth

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#11. Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

Gary Saul Morson

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#12. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

Aldous Huxley

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#13. Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Bonnie Raitt

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#14. Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#15. That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Aldous Huxley

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