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Books Quotes


"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."


"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."


"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
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