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Lewis Buzbee has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried…
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Books were in the world; the world was in books.
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I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
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Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from…
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John…
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Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is…
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come;…
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Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
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The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
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The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food,…
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Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
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The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,…
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"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed,…
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Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks…
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I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
— John Baldessari
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