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William Stafford quote: "When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the..."

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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets... Umberto Eco
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Those people digging around in the refrigerator at 3am, those are the only people I can write for. And that, is me. Haruki Murakami