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Nothing to Be Frightened Of

by Julian Barnes

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Axe Handles: Poems

by Gary Snyder

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)

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“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

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“My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.”
― Sean O'Faolain”
― Seán Ó Faoláin

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“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

[Inside Out (VH1)]”
― Warren Zevon

tags: books, passage-of-time, reading, time

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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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