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- Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
- A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies
- A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- I have read your book and much like it.
- Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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