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Jan Jan said: " This is my 3rd reading of this book. Each time, I love it more. I find myself laughing at times and all out sobbing at times as well. I've read the print copy (excellent) and listened to it on audio (one of my favorite audiobooks ever - the narrators ...more "

 
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero

Erasmus
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Douglas Adams
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

Madeleine L'Engle
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L'Engle

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