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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

“Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby.”
― Franz McLaren, Home Lost

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.”
― Etgar Keret

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“He who takes delight in deceiving others must not complain when he is deceived himself.”
― David Miller, That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written

“Miss Drew, entering her classroom, was aghast to see instead of the usual small array of buttonholes on her desk, a mass of already withering hothouse flowers completely covering her desk and chair. William was a boy who never did things by halves.”
― David Miller, That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written

“I like pirates, don’t you, Miss Drew? An’ robbers an’ things like that? Miss Drew, would you like to be married to a robber?”
― David Miller, That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written

“As Charlotte Brontë said, ‘Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.’ Parts”
― Sandi Toksvig, Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. Ogden Nash (1902–71), American poet I”
― Sandi Toksvig, Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British politician”
― Sandi Toksvig, Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners

“You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The all-seeing eye. What has it seen? Nothing as interesting as the things I saw through the judas hole at Lyntons. But of course, the difference is privacy. The other women will complain and shout about being looked at without warning. But I think it is better to know when someone is watching rather than to live your life under an invisible gaze.”
― Claire Fuller, Bitter Orange

“I learned from the wig-men that the law is not about finding the truth, it is about who can tell the most convincing story. It is a game that must be grasped swiftly if you want to win, even if to everyone else it looks as though you have lost.”
― Claire Fuller, Bitter Orange

“Mummy’s a bad person,’ I said. ‘Really bad. I know that, I’ve always known that. And I wondered … do you think I might be bad too? People inherit all sorts of things from their parents, don’t they – varicose veins, heart disease. Can you inherit badness?”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Cora, you cannot always keep yourself away from things that hurt you. We all wish we could, but we cannot: to live at all is to be bruised.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

“It was astonishing how quickly life could change, how the ground moved beneath you and the landscape you thought you were living in turned out to be entirely different. Like waking up after an earthquake.”
― William Boyd, Love is Blind