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“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
― David Bowie

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books”
― taheera mafi

“If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.”
― Simon Pegg

“I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
--David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.”
― David Bowie

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
― Nat King Cole

“I read like the flame reads the wood.”
― Alfred Döblin

“We are made whole
By books, as by great spaces and the stars”
― Mary Carolyn Davies

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”
― Gilbert Highet, The Immortal Profession

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

“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. ”
― Holbrook Jackson

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

“I wanted to live among books.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible