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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable ...more

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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, ...more

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to c...more

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Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...more

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the...more

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the b...more

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Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call...more

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back...more

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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.