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150 Volumes quotes by 131 unique authors
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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
— Diana Gabaldon
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Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled…
— Cassandra Clare
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Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used…
— Gary Shteyngart
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It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an…
— Lynn Flewelling
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Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your…
— Veronica Roth
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Vee is my un-twin. She's green-eyed, milky blond, and a few pounds over curvy. I'm a smoky-eyed brunette with volumes of curly hair that holds…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great…
— Anne Rice
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But the silence spoke volumes.
— Haruki Murakami
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
— Virginia Woolf
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The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.
— Nicole Krauss
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and…
— Diane Ackerman
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Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
— Julian Assange
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I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
— Barton Gellman
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Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with…
— Tom Chatfield
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After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery…
— Caroline Lawrence
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Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.
— Pico Iyer
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It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
— William E. Gladstone
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I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of…
— James Loeb
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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more…
— John Bates Clark
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of…
— Hans Frank
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Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated…
— Louis Stokes
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