“The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.”
Source: The Invisible Library
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Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
Context: How much of what we do is free will, and how much is programmed in our genes? Why is each people so narrow that it believes that it, and it alone, has all the answers?
In religion, is there but one road to salvation? Or are there many, all equally good, all going in the same general direction?
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Source: Houses of Stone
"Slightly Foxed", line 25.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires
“The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.”
The Garden, i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“People disagreeing everywhere you look
Makes you wanna stop and read a book”
Song lyrics, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971), Watching the River Flow