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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people."
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