So many books, so little time. ― Frank Zappa

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

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deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me. ― Ned Vizzini

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ― William Shakespeare

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ― Saul Bellow

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The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.

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