The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge.
Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.", American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love ex...
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.
I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.
Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.
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