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Books do furnish a room.

Books do furnish a room.
– Anthony Powell

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  2. No guest rooms.- I shake my head resolutely. -œI want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. – Lauren Oliver
  3. You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
  4. Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. – Anthony Powell
  5. Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. – Peter Ustinov
  6. If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. – Confucius
  7. To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
  8. If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. – Mark Twain
  9. we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. – Arthur W Pink
  10. I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books. – Martin Booth
  11. Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured. – Anthony Powell
  12. Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they’ll marry anybody. – Anthony Powell
  13. Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them. – Anthony Powell
  14. In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame. – Anthony Powell
  15. …in those days children were rather out of fashion. – Anthony Powell
  16. Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. – Anthony Powell
  17. There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. – Anthony Powell
  18. There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. – Anthony Powell
  19. Bring a torch, if you’ve got one. It’s as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese. – Anthony Powell
  20. Some of the best of us are quite unambitious. – Anthony Powell
  21. He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable. – Anthony Powell
  22. Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. – Lawrence Clark Powell
  23. If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  24. The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere. – Barbara Kingsolver
  25. There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book-¦ Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait. – Kelly Link
  26. Eternal joy arises by living in the ‘permanent room’. Living in the ‘temporary room’ gives temporary joy. – Dada Bhagwan
  27. I don’t have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room. – RADelmonico
  28. A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands? – Antonio Porchia
  29. The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil. – Sherry Turkle
  30. If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. – Austin Kleon
  31. Until you press the switch ????on of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  32. A silent room is not an affluent room. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
  33. Believe me, You will surely see the light. even if you are in a darkest room though, It will go in through small holes in your room. – Chandra Bobby
  34. Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one. – Bruce Robinson
  35. Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine. – Aberjhani
  36. It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim. – Duop Chak Wuol
  37. 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
  38. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  39. 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
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter

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