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Books Quotes by Nicholson Baker
- I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then…
- I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same -…
- Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities…
- There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I…
- Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal
- One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada