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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…
• I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
• For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
• Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
• It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
• If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
• One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
• Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
• In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
• Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
• It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
• 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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