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Carl
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“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
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“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a book that you have despised since you were fourteen.”
― One for the Books
― One for the Books
“Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet”
― One for the Books
― One for the Books
“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.”
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“I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters-height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author's nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them. Then I put them back the way they were.”
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