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• All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home…
• 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…
• Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing…
• I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to…
• I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by…
• I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in…
• But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I…
• I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
• I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never…
• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of…
• I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading…

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