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“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--”
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Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--”
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“I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener
“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”
― Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
― Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
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