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“A true work of fiction does all of the following things, and does them elegantly, efficiently: it creates a vivid and continuous dream in the reader’s mind; it is implicitly philosophical; it fulfills or at least deals with all of the expectations it sets up; and it strikes us, in the end, not simply as a thing done but as a shining performance.”
― John Gardner

“Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.
The former grows silently to let you live.
The later grows you silently to 'live”
― Sridhar Movva

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters

“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist