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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
— Edward Abbey
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Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help
— Alice Hoffman
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of…
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and…
— Umberto Eco
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Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
— Alberto Manguel
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When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in…
— Lev Grossman
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Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
— Chris Colfer
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I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to…
— Pat Murphy
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Books always help.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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