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“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

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Book:The House of Paper

Source: The House of Paper

“I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish.”

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Author:Konstantinos Staikos

“I wish to have one copy of every book in the world.”

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Author:Sir Thomas Phillipps

“No longer a mere facade--a rug or a stall--the bookstore deepened so that it could hold and display the rapidly increasing stock of books and provide backroom space for scribes and their supplies.”

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Book:The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“I read a lot, too, though I can’t figure out if I’m reading all these books because I want to be clever enough to deal with everything, or whether I’m reading them for enjoyment.”

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Author:Matty Healy

“I’m buying a lot of books and then putting them in a nice order and then saying, I’m going to read that tomorrow. And then I’m going to read that one after it.”

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Author:Matty Healy

“O my darling books…how dear to me are they all! For have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all! It seems as if, by long and sweet companionship, you had become part of myself.”

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Author:Antoine Issac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy

“We believed in this country in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and risked everything on it.”

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Author:Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

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Book:Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion

Source: Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion

“Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.”

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Book:My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

Source: My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

“Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book is worth nothing? Nothing whatsoever. It's a volume of old sermons, which in the trade are pretty well unsaleable. Your book is a first edition all right, and probably there never was a second, for obvious reasons.”

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Book:Death of a Bookseller

Source: Death of a Bookseller