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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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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!"
"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
"Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name."
"I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better."
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