"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

Books, Grandparents, Paris, Sisters

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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Books, Giving

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Books, End, Nothing, Study

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

John Milton, English Poet

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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Read much, but not many books."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Books, Solitude, Friendship, Loneliness

"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Books, Humanity

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

Design

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

Time

"We all look for lost time."

Time

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"Italy is a divided country without a center."

Nation

"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"Read much, but not many books."

"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

"Books are humanity in print."

"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

"We all look for lost time."

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

"Italy is a divided country without a center."

"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."