“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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“The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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