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“The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people.”

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“The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those I’ll never read.”

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Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“Not all fairy tales come from the books.”

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“Every nation can be summed up by a single book or play, or by a particular author. America is perhaps perfectly encapsulated by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a book about luxury, enchantment, glamour, magic spells, aspiration, a vulgar Wonderland, insecurity, pretentiousness, bluffing, soullessness, fakes, phonies, emptiness, desperation, regrets, and impossible dreams. “Her voice is full of money,” says the narrator about the beguiling muse Daisy Buchanan. Could this not serve as the epitaph for the American Dream itself as it is finally laid to rest?”

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Book:Character Wars: America's Failing Character

Source: Character Wars: America's Failing Character

“I imagined accumulating books as the truest form of wealth and dreamt of vast libraries with rolling ladders, shelves rising up to high ceilings, volumes filled with my notes and annotations. Selling half of my collection reduced me. I worried that I’d given too much away.”

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Book:Farm Girl: A Memoir

Source: Farm Girl: A Memoir

“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such slashing of humbug, and humbug too, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights breaking across the just-waking wits and splashing all over the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each of which were alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.”

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Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“He was too entranced by the real love of his life—books.”

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Book:Igni Ferroque

Source: Igni Ferroque

“Those with the most to lose must walk farthest from trouble. Wisdom lies not in fear, but in protecting what truly matters.”

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Author:Rufus Aleburu

“There has to be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“She took the cognac and disappeared into her corner of a kitchen. 'Make yourself comfortable,' she shouted out to me. 'Take off your shoes. Take off your socks. Look at my books—I often wonder what I'd do if there wren't any books in the world.”

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Book:Giovanni’s Room

Source: Giovanni’s Room

“Oh, you were scared silly," said Beatty, "for I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.”

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451