Book Quotes

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity." Umberto Eco

Those of us who cannot live without books know exactly what he means. Some people don't understand why you don't throw or give away a book once you read them, they have no understand how we relate to those stories.

"To be apolitical is to be political without realizing it." Rosa Luxemburg

I know exactly what she means. Those people who don't go to elections, for example, influence them just as much as those who vote, if not more.

"It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business" Adam Stanley

And the stories in the book are so much more exciting than those we see in our neighbourhood.

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