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I have never been able to resist a book about books.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.
– Anne Fadiman

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  1. If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. – Anne Fadiman
  2. I’d rather have a book, but in a pinch I’ll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions. – Anne Fadiman
  3. In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. – Anne Fadiman
  4. Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. – Anne Fadiman
  5. But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren’t careful, they floated away. – Anne Fadiman
  6. Marina wouldn’t want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she’s good. – Anne Fadiman
  7. You’re a romantic. What’s romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there? – Anne Fadiman
  8. People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. – Peter M Senge
  9. The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness. – Nikki Rowe
  10. Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. – Bryant McGill
  11. God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  12. When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman
  13. When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Cliff Fadiman
  14. Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. – Clifton Fadiman
  15. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse
  16. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  17. There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. – Louise Erdrich
  18. Newly-born books are like birds-¦ they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15 – Wendy Anne Darling
  19. You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to. – LM Montgomery
  20. Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won’t be able to resist. – Red Phoenix
  21. What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. – Anne Rice
  22. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  23. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  24. We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  25. The Diary of a Young Girl – This book fills you with sadness. I like this book – Anne Frank
  26. The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. – Anne Sexton
  27. Reading to small children is a specialty. – Clifton Fadiman
  28. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Fadiman
  29. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
  30. Part of our work as faithful Christians is to learn how to discern when, and by what means, to resist authority. – The Liberty Book
  31. A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. – Richard Flanagan
  32. It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
  33. I don’t understand your book. Isn’t every book a book of words? – Kristin Cashore
  34. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  35. A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
  36. Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
  37. To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. – MF Moonzajer
  38. The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine
  39. But Moby-???? is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America. – Robert Stone
  40. But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book. – John M Keller

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