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“Ask anyone with a big book collection, and they'll tell you moving them was the hardest part of the move. Take down a bookshelf and there's often no less than four, possibly up to eight, good Lord if it's over ten, boxes of dense material. This is the single greatest argument for welcoming ebooks. Abandoning print and having your Kindle on display instead doesn't sound like such a bad idea while carrying book box number seven to the car.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Starbucks and their ilk are for meeting with people you don't care to meet with and finishing term papers.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“All fathers who don't read like Guy Fieri.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“What Your Child Will Grow Up to Be If You Read Them…”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“At these moments I need my reading easy and quick; I need to turn the pages without knowing it. I don’t have the bandwidth to wonder about the underlying meaning of the exact word chosen to phrase how one turned around or analyze just why an object was described in a certain”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“Considering yourself a serious reader doesn’t mean you can’t read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.”
― quote from Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
“but within the next ten years Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves.”
― Karel Čapek, quote from R.U.R.
“All the explanations proposed seem to be
only partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that leads men to perpetrate horrors, animal drunkenness, the jungles of the mind.”
― Alden Bell, quote from The Reapers are the Angels
“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
― Alma Katsu, quote from The Taker
“How much longer can I be so fucking cute?”
― Charles Dickens, quote from A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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