"The books of our childhood offer a vivid……" — Lewis Buzbee
"The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book."
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16 Quotes by Lewis Buzbee
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I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time,…
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Books were in the world; the world was in books.
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I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
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Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a…
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer,…
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Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a…
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far…
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Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
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The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
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The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require…
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Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
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"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to…
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