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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The title of a book fills the place of the face in a human being. – Gustav Boehm, “A Discourse on Title Page Composition,” in The Inland Printer (Ch

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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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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge — they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. – Vissarion Belinsky

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