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> [Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/books-did-not-need-to-be-beautiful-back-in-the-fifties-because/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

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## More by Joe Queenan

> [“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/books-ingeniously-coupled-with-music-and-alcohol-enabled-the-irish-to/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/as-was-the-case-in-requiem-for-a-dream-pollock-a-beautiful-mind-house/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/books-did-not-need-to-be-beautiful-back-in-the-fifties-because/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/the-problem-with-the-english-patient-is-that-to-enjoy-it-you-have-to/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/purists-maintain-that-if-you-go-to-a-baseball-game-you-will-almost/)

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> [My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/my-books-have-been-part-of-my-life-forever-they-have-been-good/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/but-such-a-fortuitous-rescue-from-ethical-bondage-is-rare-indeed/)

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> [Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/great-writers-say-things-that-are-so-beautiful-the-very-act-of/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/a-friend-once-told-me-that-the-real-message-bram-stoker-sought-to/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/every-life-even-the-best-ones-ends-in-sadness-books-hold-out-hope/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/unless-paid-i-never-read-books-by-or-about-businessmen-or-politicians/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/saddling-another-person-with-a-book-he-did-not-ask-for-has-always/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [“I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/i-do-not-accept-reading-tips-from-strangers-especially-from/)

[Joe Queenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-queenan/)

> [Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/reading-is-the-way-mankind-delays-the-inevitable-reading-is-the-way/)

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> [If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-queenan/if-you-have-read-6-000-books-in-your-lifetime-or-even-600-it-s/)

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