“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.” — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — George Payne Rainsford James Copy Share Image
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Age appears to be best in some things. Old wood best to burn. Old books best to read. Old rice best to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait… — Margaret Widdemer Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“This place might have been paradise, a treasure trove far greater than any to be found in a pirate yarn. Everywhere he… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among… — Virginia Wolf Copy Share Image
“You know, old books are a big problem for us. Old knowledge in general. We call it OK. Old knowledge, OK. Did… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like the smell of books, particularly old books—that magical combination of oaky aged paper, the rich robustness of leather,… — H.Y. Hanna Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I bet Mrs Snapperly had no teeth and talked to herself, right?” said Miss Tick. “Yes. And she had a cat. And… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Employment in the Small Bookstore" Twelve Poems, 1975 The dust is almost motionless in this narrowness, this stillness, yet how unlike a… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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