You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ― Lou Holtz

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I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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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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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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