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“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
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