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[about books]If you cannot read them, any rate...fondle them. Peer into them...let them fall open where they will,...Set them back on the shelf with your own hands...If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. Winston Churchill
Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!"No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks! J. R. R. Tolkien
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you’re better off not touching it until you’re all grown up. I’m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don’t open it. Philip Pullman
Margaret Atwood quote: "Potential has a shelf life."
Potential has a shelf life. Margaret Atwood
Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It was on one of the upper shelves, and as the bishop was rather short, he could not reach it. ’Madame Magloire,’ said he, ‘bring me a chair. My highness cannot reach that shelf. Victor Hugo
A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her."
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Zora Neale Hurston
and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles. John Berger
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir? Amy Tan
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness. The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls. Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just. Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust. The grizzly bear, whose potent hug, Was feared by all, is now a rug. Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf, And I don't feel so well myself. Arthur Guiterman
Graham Greene quote: "A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a..."
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. Graham Greene
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me. This supermarket life is getting long. What is the heart life of a colour TVWhat is the shelf life of a teenage queen Roger Waters
Charles Dickens quote: "No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a..."
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. Henry Miller

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