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"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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

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S. A. Tawks, British Author

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Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

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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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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

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"I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

"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."

"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

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

"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

"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."

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"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic."

"I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate."

"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."

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