#books

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

"Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony."

"What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]"

"Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver,"she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles."

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."

"If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp."

"لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة"

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner."

"Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them."

"There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different."

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness."

"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."

"If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs."

"She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself."

"It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book."