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“I love books. I need them, those self-contained little worlds between two covers where I can travel whenever I have the feeling I’m living in the wrong world - or when my own world is hemming me in or eluding me or hurting me.”

Book:Die Wahrheit

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“Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”

Reading Books Virginia Woolf Genres

Book:How Should One Read a Book?

Source: How Should One Read a Book?

“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.”

Humor Reading Books Greek Tragedy

Book:The Hidden Gallery

Source: The Hidden Gallery

“There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.”

Book Reading Books

Book:How to Find Love in a Bookshop

Source: How to Find Love in a Bookshop

“And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.”

Books Libraries Jane Austen Marianne Dashwood

Book:Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Never allow misery to erode your desire for victory.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”

Reading Knowledge Books Libraries

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.”

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Book:Taste

Source: Taste

“I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.”

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Author:Patti Roberts

“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books.”

Reading Literature Books Words Escapism

Book:An Unnecessary Woman

Source: An Unnecessary Woman

“We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...”

Reading Literature Books Words

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

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