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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

—Edith Sitwell

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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

—Dorothy Parker

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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

—Dave Kellett

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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.

—Cicero

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

—Christopher Morley

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

—Charles W. Eliot

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

—Charles De Secondat

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

—Bell Hooks

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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

—Austin Phelps

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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.

—Arnold Lobel

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There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.

—Anna Quindlen

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