Category: books
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“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed.”
“I think we’d all be better readers if we realized that it isn’t the writer who’s the time traveler. It’s the reader…”
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books… letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
“I should infinitely prefer a book.”
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me… were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
