The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."

(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)

Anatole Broyard

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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

Betty MacDonald

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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Edward P. Morgan

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All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell

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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Philip Pullman

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We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

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On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Marcel Proust

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One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

George W. Bush

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O livro é um pássaro com mais de cem asas para voar.

Ramón Gómez de la Serna

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O livro que espalma a flor nas suas págimas transforma-a em borboleta.

Ramón Gómez de la Serna

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