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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
Explore more quotes by Sam Levenson
"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination."
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
"If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother."
"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."
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