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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

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Libraries raised me.

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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put ...more

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you ca...more

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There's nothing magical in them at all. Magic i...more

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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, ...more

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It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he...more

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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of...more

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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books...more

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If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just g...more

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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man w...more