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“There are timeless stories, powerful enough to have survived through the ages. Read lots of books like these—they’ll be like friends to you. They’ll inspire and support you.”
This world throws all kinds of obstacles at us; we are forced to endure so much that is absurd. Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble in the world isn’t logic or violence. It’s humor.”
No matter how rich and wonderful it all looks on the outside, when you take off the lid and look inside there’s nothing but a jumble of borrowed junk. It’s the worst kind of ignorance.”
“People who truly love books don’t treat them this way.”
“It’s not true that the more you read, the more you see of the world. No matter how much knowledge you cram into your head, unless you think with your own mind, walk with your own feet, the knowledge you acquire will never be anything more than empty and borrowed.”
calmly continued: “Books can’t live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information.
“It’s good to be humble. But there’s such a thing as taking it too far.”
“Reading isn’t only for pleasure or entertainment. Sometimes you need to examine the same lines deeply, read the same sentences over again. Sometimes you sit there, head in hands, only progressing at a painstakingly slow pace. And the result of all this hard work and careful study is that suddenly you’re there and your field of vision expands. It’s like finding a great view at the end of a long climbing trail.”
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“There’s a big difference between the books you value and the ones that the rest of society wants,”
You know what most readers are looking for in a book? Something easy, cheap, and exciting. We have no choice but to adapt the form of books to suit those readers’ tastes.”
“Shutting yourself away in a bookshop is fine,” said the cat in its rich, deep voice. “What worried us more was that you’d retreated into your own shell.”
“Don’t give in to loneliness. You aren’t alone. You have many friends looking out for you.”
“Not perfectly of course, but I’m about as fine as I could be.”
But time is merciless in its passing.
No matter how sad, how painful, how nonsensical a thing might happen, time refused to stand still and wait
“A book that sits on a shelf is nothing but a bundle of paper. Unless it is opened, a book possessing great power or an epic story is mere scraps of paper. But a book that has been cherished and loved, filled with human thoughts, has been endowed with a soul.”
No matter how cleverly done, a fake was still a fake.
