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“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
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“The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“My father always said: "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf.”
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“As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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