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Virginia Woolf
“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

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

Barbara W. Tuchman
“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman

Steven Moore
“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.”
Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
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Orhan Pamuk
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

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