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“Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!”

Ifs Giving Book House Give Me Rate Furniture

Author:Horace Mann

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

Giving Book Would Be Numbers Secret Needed Pages Research Give Me Code Librarian Glamorous

Author:Libba Bray

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

Giving Book Matter Reason Reading Lost Changed Taught Sight Give Me Changed My Life

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.”

Giving Book Half Wise Give Me Rational Curse Primitive Savages Kill Me Half Measures

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”

Want Giving Believe Book Losing Give Me Lunch Limbs Phantoms Losing Her Phantom Limbs

Author:Nora Ephron

“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”

“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.”

Ifs Knows Giving Littles Book Water White Pleasure Doors Fine Fairs Give Me Wine Fruit Admire Weather Evening Mess Lawns Ponds Goldfish French Wine Fine Weather

Author:John Keats

“I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.'”

Giving Looks Book Humanity Animal Study Cat Give Me Tongue Ridiculous Look Up Rough Fur Combs Purring Cats

Author:Dilys Laing

“For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.”

Giving Writing Mind Kind Book Behinds Lord Give Me Sells Peace Of Mind Righteousness Leisure Influential

Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.”

Ifs Giving Writing Stills Book Moments Eye Moving Position Strange Cold Reader Terrible Give Me Exposure

Author:Eudora Welty

“My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'”

“The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.”

Ifs Giving Book Give Me Gossip Columns

Author:Ethel Merman