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It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes…

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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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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song. — Rupert Holmes
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that. — Bruce Forsyth
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our… — Ellen Potter
That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent;… — William Faulkner
My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly… — Alexa Von Tobel
Its too late its all gone, you had your chance, you took too long... like you always do, I wont wait for… — Cristina Orante
And we play our favorite songs And we scream out all night long Like ooh ooh ooh When it's just me and… — Unknown Author
I hope I live to be 100 if only just to mess with people by telling them fake reasons why I lived… — Green Monk
You don't know me like that, Like Chris Lova, I use to sell brick houses wrapped in 2 rubbers, but not the… — Young Jeezy

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