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title: "1 Books Held Quotes By Sheridan Hay"
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> [“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/the-arcade-and-now-peabody-s-combined-to-tell-me-that-there-was-life/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

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## More by Sheridan Hay

> [I drink to not giving a damn . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-drink-to-not-giving-a-damn/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/bruno-was-a-musician-with-the-temperament-of-an-anarchist-and-the/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/he-wanted-to-limit-me-to-his-own-investigation-of-who-i-was/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/ageing-is-a-process-of-exchanging-hope-for-insight/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/nothing-is-ever-what-you-imagine-is-it/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Unlikely things are often true . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/unlikely-things-are-often-true/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-loved-the-city-we-were-anonymous-and-even-then-i-had-the-sense-that/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/liberation-was-in-the-very-scale-of-the-city-a-goldfish-bowl-one/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/drunk-on-research-exhilarated-by-arcane-details/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/they-were-oddities-marginal-and-not-exactly-respectable-for-her-part/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/i-didn-t-know-then-that-this-was-how-deep-emotion-most-often-comes/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Art opens the fishiest eye . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/art-opens-the-fishiest-eye/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/the-ceiling-is-just-a-deep-dusty-dome-like-the-inside-of-a-skull-both/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/books-aren-t-lumps-of-paper-but-minds-on-shelves/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

> [“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheridan-hay/the-arcade-and-now-peabody-s-combined-to-tell-me-that-there-was-life/)

[Sheridan Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheridan-hay/)

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