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Joseph ’s best-5-star-nonseries-fiction shelf

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

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Joseph ’s Quotes

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

tags: life, reading

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“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity

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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friend, friendship, writers

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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