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Book Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova
- Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
- No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't…
- You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
- When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
- ...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
- And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
- It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way…
- I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich…
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