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The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.


Anatole Broyard

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HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the b...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD