Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 9:49AM There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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