Book Quote by Helene Hanff Download Open image “I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.” — Helene Hanff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Book Book Books Mediocre Sacrosanct Sacrosanct Bad Think Sacrosanct Thinking Writer
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“Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“I houseclean my books every spring and throw out those I'm never going to read again like I throw out clothes I'm never going… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books.… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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