#book

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The eye is the notebook of the poet. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole. ↗

— Josh Lucas

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I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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