"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
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"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."
"Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen."
"This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man."
"Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie."
"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
"No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
"اعذرني !!لن ألوث طهري ونقائي لمجرد إرضائك ،ولن أدنس مبادئي لأكسب شرف قربك مني ..ولن أنزع رداء الطفولة من روحي من ذاتي من وجداني ..لأكون في نظرك أنثى كاملة النضوجهذه أنا إن أردتني بطهري بطفولتي بنقائي بوفائي بعطائي !!وإن لم ترغب بنجلائك كما هي ..إذهب إليهن وغادرنيفكثيرات ياسيدي من هن بحجم رغباتك !وقليلات / قليلات من هن بحجم نقائي !"
"Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse."
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me."
"Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us."
"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."
"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters."
"Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink."
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."
"There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine. Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook."
"Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica."
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
"No furniture is so charming as books."