Friday 5 April 2013

Book Quotes of the Week

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

"Of course, anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper." David Quammen

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Reading brings us unknown friends" Honore de Balzac 

"We cannot do but to read. ... A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading." Alberto Manguel

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