I sometimes think about that, when I finish in something big I find it even hard, I feel like I lose an… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
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