If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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I don’t wanna die But I don’t wanna live like this.

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