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“How awful!” said Bill. “Why do you do it?” “Oh, because it gives one such a noble feeling to suffer for one’s silhouette.
“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Among Others
― Among Others
“Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?”
― The Kraken Wakes
― The Kraken Wakes
“It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ...”
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“Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .”
― The History of Mr. Polly
― The History of Mr. Polly
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