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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
— Henny Youngman
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
— Mark Twain
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
— Anatole Broyard
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river.…
— Anatole Broyard
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting…
— Ansen Dibell
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My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back…
— Emilia Clarke
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being…
— David Lindsay-Abaire
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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the…
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we…
— Samantha Bee
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I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…
— C.S. Lewis
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His…
— A. E. Hotchner
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a…
— Roald Dahl
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