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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗


— Patti Smith


#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. ↗


— Eloisa James


#reading #beauty

As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful. ↗


— Kieran Scott


#couples #relationships #beauty

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth. ↗


— Lionel Barrymore


#bookstores #wisdom #beauty

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. ↗


— Patti Smith


#beauty

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different. ↗


— Jorge Luis Borges


#borges #gods #homer #mallarmé #memory

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas ↗


— Langston Hughes


#kansas #suffering #beauty

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. ↗


— B.R. Myers


#classics #reading #business

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal. ↗


— Michael Cox


#reading #business

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#change






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