I was inhuman because of the way I churned through library books.Steve Toltz
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Have you really read all those books in your room?”
I haven't got time to read books.'
Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... 
Christmas poem to a man in jail
A book about books is like a poem about poetry:
Have you really read all those books in your room?" 
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of
Well, I've spent a lot of time in your libraries at night," said Ripred. 
In great thick dusty books he read
It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to en... 
You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last... 
Books, books, books!
You’ve read the books?”
Wrong?
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
I gave you my scenario by which I play, but you can't play my character forever, can ya?
Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... 
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
Are you sure that’s a real spell?’ said the girl. ‘Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve t... 
Percy and Books
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... 
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" 
We slept in the same bed.
That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... 
eat, baby.
Wait," I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. "Where are you going?"... 
I was terrified of what might have happened to you," I choked out. 
I wasn't born to cook or clean,
My eyes burned, and I blinked as I faced the books. "And I suppose," I said with an effort at lightn... 
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... 
Ravel said. “And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of... 
If I lived forever, who knows what I would do?" he continues. "I would certainly get better at the p... 
We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice.
That time
You say I am repeating 
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The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. 
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie... 
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. 
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi... 
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk.... 
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