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'There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.'

Christopher Morley

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'A great book [of literature] should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.'

William Styron

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'There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?'

Marina Ivanova Tsvetajeva

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'The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.'

Terry Pratchett

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'The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.'

Sherri Chasin Calvo

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'I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul.'

Henry Miller

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'I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.'

E.M. Forster

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'This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.'

Dorothy Parker

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'I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.'

Anna Quindlen

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'All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and the afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and places and how the weather was.'

Ernest Hemingway

'I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library' (Jorge Luis Borges)

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