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“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.”
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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