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  1. Nicholas A. Basbanes _ A Gentle Madness:

    For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not.When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames of Hell consume him forever.{attributed to the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona, Spain}"
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  2. Philip Pullman _ La Belle Sauvage

    But what matters is not the similarities your imagination finds, but the similarities that are implicit in the image, and they are not necessarily the same. I have noticed that the more imaginative readers are often the less successful. Their minds leap to what they think is there rather than waiting with patience. And what matters most of all is where the chosen meaning comes in the hierarch of meaning, you see, and for that there is no alternative to the books. That is why the only alethiometers we know about are kept in or by great libraries.
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  3. Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree

    I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
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  4. Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree

    {about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section}I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey."
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  5. Emily St. John Mandel _ Last Night in Montreal

    She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to ten or twelve pages: Lilia, Gabriel, Anna, Michelle. In every town her name was different.
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  6. Elizabeth Kostova _ The Historian

    You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
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  7. Kathryn Lasky _ Memoirs of a Bookbat

    It was in Durmond that I made the wonderful discovery of interlibrary loan, the greatest invention since the light bulb. {…} All the libraries were linked together, so no matter where I moved, as long as I had a library card I would be part of a web as powerful and beautiful as the one in Charlotte's Web. Just as Charlotte the spider wrote messages in her web that transformed Wilbur the ordinary pig into "some pig," this web would transform me. I would eventually collect nearly fifty different library cards. I was snagged forever in the wonderful web of the public library system.
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  8. Liam Callanan _ Paris by the Book

    Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there's a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe‑ deposit box for civilization.
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