Prologue

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So many books, so little time.

Frank Zappa

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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