Kathleen Norris - Books Quotes

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The clearing-house of the brain, the wings of the spirit, books lift us away from the petty, crowded day's smallness and entanglement.

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The good things end and the bad things end,
But the sum of it all at the last is gain,
While books and the cliffs and the seas remain,
And the strong true hand of a friend.

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The difference between having a good book to read and not having a good book to read is just about the difference between darkness and light.

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If there were but one place in the world where we could find them [books], we must all be pilgrims. If one man possessed them all, we must all be suitors.

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

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If, at the end of the saddest, the most disappointing and hurtful day, each one of us may come to a quiet room somewhere, and that room his own, if there is a light burning above white pillows, and a pile of books waiting under the light, then indeed we may still praise Allah, that He has not terminated all the Delights.

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We raked books off the shelves by the dozen and hauled them along on picnics, to haylofts, up oak trees, to bath and to bed. The one terrifying possibility was to find oneself without a book.

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The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold all his life long. He finds his nuggets, his heart leaps in his breast; he cannot believe in his good fortune. Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours. It belongs to no one else; it is not interchangeable.

Kathleen Norris