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Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is… — Finley Peter Dunne
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on… — Czeslaw Milosz
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying… — Daniel Handler
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. — Anne Sexton
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men… — Annie Dillard
It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand… — Mark Haddon
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look… — Laurie R. King
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you… — C.S. Lewis
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a… — Henry Miller
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. — Alberto Manguel
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our… — Anne Fadiman
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest… — Anne Fadiman
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the… — Anne Fadiman
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black… — Armistead Maupin
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull… — Ray Bradbury
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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