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“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.”

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“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the song, to the momentary idea that any point on Earth was mine for the visiting, that I'd lucked out living in the reality I was in. And I also got the feeling I was souring and damaging that luck by enjoying the contentment of pulling the shades on the sun, and shutting out my fellow employees and the world, and folding myself up in the construct of a brilliant novel like The Man in the High Castle, that all the reading I'd been doing up to this point hadn't enhanced my life, but rather had replaced and delayed it.”

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Book:Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Source: Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

“It starts with fewer words, then fewer calls… then nothing to talk about. And suddenly, it feels like you are strangers again.”

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Book:Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

“Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!”

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Author:CK Webb

“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.”

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Book:Library: An Unquiet History

Source: Library: An Unquiet History

“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)”

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Book:Breathless in Bombay: Stories

Source: Breathless in Bombay: Stories

“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.”

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Author:Ivan Stoikov

“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.”

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Book:Anne's House of Dreams

Source: Anne's House of Dreams

“As you work toward your vision, you will encounter a great deal of opposition, but with tenacity, you will find true victory.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

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