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Book Quotes by Helene Hanff
- I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
- My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of…
- I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to…
- I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I…
- I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
- I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone…
- And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.
- Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
- Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
- It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
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