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For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word banal sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say underedited,I say derivative.The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.