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Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something…
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…
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If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…
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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…
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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered…
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I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the…
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The telling of stories creates the real world.
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked…
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When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he…
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Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The…
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But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in…
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[Kane to Rose] I'll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I'd have a woman like…
— Christine Feehan
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The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not…
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~ Everything in the world disappears, even the most things you loved and the most things you've hated. We've got no choice…
— Vince
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When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into…
— Andrew Cohen
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WHEN I TALK TO YOU; the REST OF THE WORLD DISAPPEARS! :-)
— Unknown Author
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