"There were thousands of brown books in leather……" — T.H. White
"There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure."
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80 Quotes by 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…
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke…
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To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He…
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Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.
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I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks,…
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most…
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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
— Ernst Lubitsch
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the…
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore…
— Ray Bradbury
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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger…
— Janet Fitch
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was…
— Betty Smith
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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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