Book Quote by Helene Hanff

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.” quote by Helene Hanff — Download Open image

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

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It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

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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 in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like…

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I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find…

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I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

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“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 my feet. I want to walk up Berkeley Square and down Wimpole Street and stand in St.Paul's where John Donne preached and sit on the step Elizabeth sat on when she refused to enter the Tower,…

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