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Looking for a quote about books
Reading-life quotes. The good ones, not the ones on tote bags.
- 'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.' — George R.R. Martin Dance with Dragons—
- 'I cannot live without books.' — Thomas Jefferson letter to John AdamsSaid exactly this.
- 'Books are a uniquely portable magic.' — Stephen King On Writing—
- 'A house without books is like a room without windows.' — Heinrich Mann ——
- 'Read, every day, something no one else is reading.' — Christopher Morley ——
- 'Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.' — Harper Lee To Kill a MockingbirdScout.
- 'I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.' — Jorge Luis Borges ——
- 'What you read in your youth, when read again, you read with new eyes.' — Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics—
- 'I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.' — Gary Paulsen ——
- 'There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.' — Walt Disney ——