“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
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Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 269)
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Source: Houses of Stone
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Context: I don’t need them to tell me what it feels like to be poor … I already know how this feels, how it smells and how it tastes! When I talk to them … I want them to tell me about their hopes and aspirations, about their dreams… about the road ahead and how they imagine it will shape up out in front of them to make the dreaming and hoping come true. I ask them about assistance, about the health, and about their families near or far.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”
Source: The Swan Thieves
(1980's)as quoted in 'A painter's testament: De Kooning in the Eighties', Robert Storr, Moma-website http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/dekooning/essay.html, reprinted in 1997
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