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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance

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