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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Bedenkt: Den eignen Tod, den stirbt man nur; doch mit dem Tod der andern muss man leben.”
― Mascha Kaléko

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet