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“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)”
― Patti Smith

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
― Elizabeth Kostovia, The Historian