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If you love books enough, books will love you back.

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They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuc...more

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You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

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Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

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I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

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Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean ...more

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I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people ...more