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In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I…

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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
The telling of stories creates the real world.

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