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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

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Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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