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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

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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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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borgis

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

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... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

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