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If you love books enough, books will love you back.
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You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.
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I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
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If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
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Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
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Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
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All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
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There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
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I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.
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It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death.
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There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
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Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
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Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.
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There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There's interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.
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I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.
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One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
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You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.
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Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.
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I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth, Selendra said, with what dignity she could.
Why, that's the very definition of a radical, he retorted.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
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December 1, 1964
(age 59)
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