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“Probably it can be a deeper level.. even it can be a part from The Life Of One kid... but what I did... was that I am just going to leave people with confusion as always... The Life of One Kid... h...”
“...'you have to ask yourself though, who are we to stop a war?’I sigh, wishing that the glittering pinpricks above us were truly stars. It was rare to see any due to the endless cloud cover. ‘Who a...”
“Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.”
“He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only r...”
“Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them n...”
“There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.”
“we're just paper on a shelf, in the end”
“A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.”
“All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.”
“Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.”
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.”
“If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoym...”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.”
“The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.”
“The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.”
“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
“The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.”
“'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.”
