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Books 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…
- 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?
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