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“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

Books Book Lover

Book:84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

Books Library Bookstore

Book:Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

Source: Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

“A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: “Then it’s there.”

Book:84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“That's for me. I am a great lover of 'I was there' books.”

Book:84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

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