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Helene Hanff

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Helene Hanff

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“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”

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“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”

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“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

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“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”

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“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”

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“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”

Helene Hanff

Source: Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books

Helene Hanff Quotes

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

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“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”

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“i am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.”

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“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

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