"There were thousands of brown books in leather……" — T.H. White

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness… — Mati Unt
• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke… — Lisa See
• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He… — James Parton
• Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold
• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks,… — Laini Taylor
• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most… — Joseph Campbell
• In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch
• With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the… — Bjarne Stroustrup
• I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore… — Ray Bradbury
• It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger… — Janet Fitch
• The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was… — Betty Smith
• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like… — Lauren Willig

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