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""It didn't take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory."" — Dec 07, 2016 08:32AM
""It didn't take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory."" — Dec 07, 2016 08:32AM
“But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“-our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“-the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“You mean we're going chronological order within each author?" he gasped. "But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays!"
"Well," I blustered, "we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves."
George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
"Well," I blustered, "we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The Tempest. I'd like to see that reflected on our shelves."
George says that was one of the few times he has seriously contemplated divorce.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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