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  • #1
    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”
    Yogi Berra

  • #2
    Emily Dickinson
    “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #3
    Marcel Proust
    “Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
    Proust-M

  • #5
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Logan Pearsall Smith

  • #16
    Emily Dickinson
    A Word is Dead

    A word is dead
    When it is said,
    Some say.

    I say it just
    Begins to live
    That day.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #18
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #20
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #22
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #24
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #26
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #29
    Anne Fadiman
    “I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
    Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

  • #31
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #32
    Dale Carnegie
    “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #33
    Laura Lippman
    “There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”
    Laura Lippman

  • #36
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #38
    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

  • #40
    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

  • #40
    George V. Higgins
    “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
    George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  • #42
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #42
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #43
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #44
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #45
    Herman Wouk
    “This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”
    Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

  • #46
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #48
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
    J.K Rowling

  • #49
    Daphne du Maurier
    “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
    Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #51
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #53
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis



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