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• A library is books and somewhere to put them and some people who want them there.

  Sheila Bourbeau

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• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

  Alberto Manguel

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• But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

  Alberto Manguel

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• Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

  Alberto Manguel

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• Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

  Henry Stevens

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• If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

  Steve Maraboli

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• Computers don’t kill books; people do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

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• A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

  Thomas a Kempis

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• It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

  Penelope Lively

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• And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

  Elizabeth Kostova

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• Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

  Paxton Hood

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• One wants to tell a story, like Scheherazade, in order not to die. It’s one of the oldest urges in mankind. It’s a way of stalling death.

  Carlos Fuentes

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• If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you — and if you don’t, nobody can help you.

  Alma Alexander

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• Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

  Alberto Manguel

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• Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

  Alberto Manguel

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• I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

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• You can cover a great deal of country in books.

  Andrew Lang

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• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  Christopher Morley

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• Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

  Laura Lippman

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• I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me.

  Charles Bukowski

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