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

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali