quotations about books
The Book: Man's Chief Weapon Against Tedium.
GARRISON KEILLOR
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"How I Spent My Winter Vacation,", Salon, Jan. 5, 2010
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
"Notebook E", Aphorisms
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. AUDEN
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Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit in selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
JO WALTON
Among Others
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distand and the dead.... They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society ... of the best and greatest of our race.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
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