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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner
• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about… — Holmes Rolston III
• The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid
• Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid
• I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant
• She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace
• An unread book does nobody any good — Brandon Mull
• An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull
• ‎"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,… — Lewis Buzbee
• There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread… — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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