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My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind ↗

— Andy Andrews

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Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. ↗

— Sara Nelson

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

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I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ↗

— John Milton

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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

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