“It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Variant: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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