Joe Queenan Quotes

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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 years;…
• Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
• Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
• The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain…
• People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that…
• Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes…
• 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…
• I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of…
• Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to…
• Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
• I have never squandered an opportunity to read.
• A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds…
• Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these…
• People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
• Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the…
• Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
• 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…

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