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“I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.”
― Anatole Broyard

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives.”
― the Dalai Lama

“What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
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― John Ferriar

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“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 together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
― John Muir